Herring v. Bocquet

OPINION

Opinion by:

PHIL HARDBERGER, Chief Justice.

This appeal involves a challenge by the appellants, the Herrings, to the amount of attorney’s fees awarded the appellees, the Bocquets, in a declaratory judgment action. We originally held that the attorney’s fees awarded through trial were excessive by $20,000 and affirmed on condition of remittitur. Herring v. Bocquet, 933 S.W.2d 611, 615-16 (Tex.App.—San Antonio 1996), rev’d, Bocquet v. Herring, 972 S.W.2d 19 (Tex.1998). The Texas Supreme Court granted writ and reconsidered the standard by which an award of attorney’s fees in a declaratory…