Nash v. Peters

OPINION

GUADALUPE RIVERA, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in favor of Appellee (Dennis Peters), the defendant below, on a suit brought by Appellant (Emory Nash) for enforcement of deed restrictions in a residential subdivision. We reverse.

BACKGROUND

Contending Peters violated certain deed restrictions by maintaining junked cars on his property and engaging in improper trash burning, Nash filed suit in the Justice Court. Peters denied the allegations, but a jury determined otherwise and found for Nash, awarding him $3,500 in punitive damages for breach of the restrictive…