GARCIA DISTRIBUTING, INC. v. Fedders Air Conditioning, USA, Inc.

OPINION

BISSETT, Justice (Assigned).

The question to be resolved in this appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion in striking Garcia Distributing, Inc.’s and Eddie Garcia’s claims for fraud and for actual damages because of discovery abuse. We answer the question in the negative.

The appellants Garcia Distributing, Inc. and Eddie Garcia, in their brief, offered this Court approximately thirteen pages of factual statements (thirteen references to be exact, several of which refer to the identical page and volume of the transcript or the statement of facts, as the case may be). Some…