Clark v. Lewis

OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment awarding appellee a judgment for debt, plus attorney’s fees and a take nothing judgment on appellants’ counterclaim for slander of title.

Appellee, Martha Lewis, a real estate agent in Aransas County, filed suit against appellants, Shannon Kelley Clark and Marjorie G. Hugo, for foreclosure of a mechanics and materialman’s lien or, alternatively, for debt to recover money she had expended while occupying appellants’ home. She abandoned the claim on the lien prior to trial.

The relationship between the parties arose in April or May 1981…