Legal Opinion
Carl Daily v. Charles McMillan
Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)
Decided August 15, 2017No. 06-17-00038-CVPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Opinion by
Justice Burgess
A Bowie County jury determined that Carl Daily had agreed to pay Charles McMillan $2,000.00 to remove trees and grind stumps on. his property. The jury further found that Daily breached the oral contract by refusing to pay McMillan after he completed the work. In accordance with the jury’s verdict, the trial court awarded McMillan $2,000.00 in damages, along with attorney’s fees in the amount of $18,193.19.
On appeal, Daily argues that the trial court erroneously awarded attorney’s fees against him ‘because (1) the jury charge failed to require a finding of…
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