Legal Opinion
Pride International, Inc. v. Bragg
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided April 3, 2008No. 01-07-00188-CVPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JANE BLAND, Justice.
This case arises from a falling out between a corporate CEO and his former employer. After Pride International, Inc. fired Paul Bragg and paid him a severance owed under his employment agreement, Bragg sued Pride for breach of that contract, contending that the Pride owes him three times as much in severance as it had paid him. Pride counter-claimed against Bragg for breach of fiduciary duty, contending that Bragg had misrepresented his opinion of the value of the severance package to Pride and its shareholders, in that he never disclosed that he thought the…
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