Larry D. Harris v. Sentry Title Company, Inc. v. Travis Ward

The majority’s opinion, which reverses the decision of the District Judge who heard the evidence in this case, has the unfortunate effect of rewarding, to the tune of more than $250,000,1 appellant Alan D. Whatley (Whatley) who made little or no investment in the nine acre tract known as the Dyckman property but who asserts beneficial ownership of that property, in an admitted breach of his fiduciary obligation to appellee Travis Ward (Ward), and in what is known in the vernacular as a “double cross.” Texas law, which is controlling here, does not require this, to me, inequitable and…