Couder v. Gomez

CULVER, Justice.

This suit was filed by Louis Couder, Esperanza Rueda, and her husband, Gilberto Rueda, against Modesto A. Gomez, Albert B. Eger and Yolanda Pedregón, joined by her husband, Roberto Pedregón, seeking to recover their respective interest in the assets of a business that was known as Golf Wholesale Company. The trial court gave an instructed verdict and rendered judgment in favor of the defendants that Couder and the Ruedas take nothing. The Court of Civil Appeals in affirming this judgment 1 considered that the suit was brought solely for conversion of plaintiffs’ property and…