Tow v. Amegy Bank N.A.

MEMORANDUM AND OPINION

LEE H. ROSENTHAL, District Judge.

This Memorandum and Opinion addresses the motion for summary judgment on claims against Michael Manners and companies he owned or controlled. Manners founded Royce Homes, LP, and was a 50% owner between 1998 and 2006. The Trustee of the Royce Homes bankruptcy estate, Rodney Tow, alleges that Manners conspired to breach the fiduciary duties owed to Royce Homes by both Manners and by defendant John H. Speer, who was the president of Royce Homes’s general partner and owned the other 50 % of Royce Homes until 2006, when Speer bought Manners’s…