Michaux v. Koebig

O’QUINN, Justice.

Appellees, who were plaintiffs below, brought this lawsuit in January of 1975 as former tenants of the Treehouse Apartments in San Marcos, complaining that in August of 1974 they were wrongfully excluded from their apartment by an implied threat of criminal complaint and that their security deposits, in the sum of $90, were wrongfully withheld by the landlords. 1

The tenants sought judgment for $237 representing one month’s rent, plus $300 as triple the security deposits and $100 statutory penalty, together with damages in the sum of $250 plus $750 as attorney’s fees, a total…