Metro Ford Truck Sales, Inc. v. Davis

OPINION

FENDER, Chief Justice.

This is a Deceptive Trade Practice case, TEX.BUS. & COM.CODE ANN. secs. 17.-41-17.63 (Vernon Pamph.Supp.1986), in which the purchaser of a used truck recovered judgment for $534,016.00 plus attorneys’ fees of $20,000.00 from the seller. Appellant is Metro Ford Truck Sales, Inc. (“Metro”). Appellee, William E. Davis, will be called “Davis.”

We affirm.

Davis was an independent trucker who purchased a 1979 Kenworth diesel truck for $48,500.00 from Metro in July of 1981 and traded in his old truck. In spite of the fact that the truck was (according to Davis) “fantastic”…