Keriotis v. Lombardo Rental Trust

KEITH, Justice.

Plaintiff (appellant herein) brought this action under the Deceptive Trade Prac tices-Consumer Protection Act, Tex.Bus. & Comm.Code Ann. § 17.41 et seq. (Supp. 1980), hereinafter “DTPA”, for damages arising out of an alleged oral misrepresentation that defendants would sell a certain parcel of real estate to plaintiff for $75,000, The trial court entered summary judgment that plaintiff take nothing, and we affirm.

Plaintiff conceded in oral argument that if the statute of frauds, Tex.Bus. & Comm. Code Ann. § 26.01 (1968), and as amended (Supp.1980), applies to this case, the…