Beutel v. Paul

OPINION

PAUL PRESSLER, Justice.

This is an appeal from a suit alleging wrongful garnishment. Appellee obtained a judgment against appellant for $79,-970.05 plus prejudgment interest at the rate of ten percent. There is error in the award of prejudgment interest and the judgment is modified to delete that award. The judgment as modified is affirmed.

Appellee is a CPA who prepared appellant’s taxes and then went to work for him full-time in 1979. In 1981 appellant invested in an oil company and gave appellee five percent of his fifty-one percent interest as compensation for his accounting for the…