City of Houston v. United Compost Services, Inc.

BELL, Chief Justice.

Appeal from a judgment in favor of ap-pellee by which it recovered from appellant the sum of $2,093,669.95 as damages growing out of the breach by appellant of a contract with appellee under which appel-lee agreed to construct and operate a garbage composting plant. The case was submitted to the jury on three theories of recovery. The first theory was breach of a valid contract by appellant, and the second, and alternative, theory was a contract implied in law. The third asserted estoppel to deny the validity of the contract. The jury’s answers to all controlling fact…