Covington v. Burke

WALTER, Justice.

George C. Burke recovered a judgment against Jerry Covington for damages growing out of a wrongful deed of trust foreclosure. Covington has appealed. Burke has a cross-point asserting the court erred in failing to render judgment in his behalf for $5,000.00 punitive damages awarded him by the jury.

Covington sold Burke seven small tracts of land in Reeves County for $1,755.00 These were small forty and eighty acre tracts. Burke executed a vendor’s lien note for $1,170.00 payable at Midland, Texas, and a deed of trust which permitted the holder of the indebtedness, at his…