Bolton v. Alvarado

OPINION

WARREN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding appellees damages trebled under the Deceptive Trade Practice Act, Tex.Bus. & Com.Code Ann. art. 17.50 (Vernon Supp. 1986), attorney’s fees, and reformation of their deeds from appellants.

In 1973, appellants, in two transactions, bought 50 acres of land in Fort Bend County. In both of the above conveyances, the grantor retained one half of the oil, gas, and other minerals.

Appellants subdivided the east 29.20 acres of the two above tracts into 26 tracts, and in 1978 and 1979 made earnest money contracts with, and thereafter…