Eldridge v. Collard

OPINION

JOE SPURLOCK, II, Justice.

The estate of H.L. (Hubert) Eldridge together with his widow Nancy Eldridge appeal an adverse jury verdict and judgment ordering them to pay $111,500, plus $12,-400 in attorney’s fees to the estate of Nancy’s father and to her stepmother. We reverse and render, and order that appel-lees take nothing.

In December 1975, appellees Janie and C.B. Collard 1 loaned Nancy and Hubert Eldridge $13,000. On April 24, 1980, the Collards loaned Hubert and his mother, Bonnie, $60,000, a portion of which was used to pay the unpaid balance of the 1975 loan made to Nancy and…