Legal Opinion
Hendricks v. Thornton
Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)
Decided July 29, 1998No. 09-96-163 CVPublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
STOVER, Justice.
This appeal arises from a suit by 127 investors (appellants) against the accounting firm of Grant Thornton International (Grant), ap-pellee. The appellants, many of whom are current or former professional athletes, were investors in government securities trading programs offered by an entity known as Hill-crest Securities Corporation, Inc. (Hillcrest); the trades, on which appellants lost thousands of dollars, were purportedly reviewed and verified for authenticity by Grant.
The investors sued Grant for multiple causes of action, including, but not limited to, fraud,…
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