Parkway Co. v. Woodruff

joined by Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice GONZALEZ, Justice HIGHTOWER, Justice HECHT, Justice ENOCH, Justice SPECTOR and Justice OWEN.

We decide in this case whether a real estate development company violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices — Consumer Protection Act (DTPA), Tex.Bus. & Com.Code § 17.41-63, when it sold a vacant lot in a master-planned community and years later negligently caused a home built on that lot to be flooded. The homeowners argue that the developer breached an implied warranty that its future development services would be performed in a good and workmanlike manner…