American Marine Upholstery Co. v. Minsky

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

American Marine Upholstery Company, Inc., sued Nathan Minsky and J. Strouss, the latter individually and as executor of the estate of Morris Strouss, for damages caused by their alleged fraudulent concealment of the fact that the contents of a store and warehouse, which it leased from defendants, were subject to damage by overflow from the adjacent “Joe’s Creek.” It alleged that Joe’s Creek frequently had overflowed as a result of rains in the Trinity River watershed and damaged the contents of said buildings; that lessors knew thereof but the lessee did not; that…