Woodlands Land Development Co. v. Jenkins

OPINION

BURGESS, Justice.

The Woodlands Land Development Company, L.P. (‘Woodlands”) appeals a judgment in favor of Jim and Laura Jenkins (“Jenkins” or “Appellees”) for $103,000 in compensatory damages, $35,000 in attorney’s fees, and $1,282,500 in exemplary damages. Appellees sued Woodlands, Westbrook Building Company, Inc. (“Westbrook”), and other defendants 1 for property damage and mental anguish in connection with their purchase of a new home. Among Appellees’ theories of recovery were statutory fraud, common law fraud, breach of earnest money contract, breach of covenant, and violation of…