Bantuelle v. Williams

Charles Fred Bantuelle appeals from a judgment in which the trial court construed a deed as a mortgage and canceled it and also awarded forfeiture of consideration paid, $1,000 in usury penalty and $2,500 in attorney’s fees to Mr. and Mrs. Williams. The basis for the judgment was incorporated into a fifteen-page memorandum decision which the trial judge subsequently designated as the court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law. Bantuelle, in twelve points of error, attacks this memorandum decision as being without support in the evidence presented at trial and argues that a judgment in…