FIRST TRUST CORPORATION TTEE FBO v. Edwards

OPINION

Opinion by Justice LANG.

Appellant, First Trust, claims that the trial court erred in granting appellee Edwards’s motion for judgment made after First Trust, the plaintiff below, rested its case in chief. The motion was based upon Edwards’s defense that he had been released from First Trust’s claims.

The facts giving rise to First Trust’s claims and Edwards’s release defense are intricate. However, First Trust’s suit against Edwards was for breach of a commercial financing agreement. First Trust acquired the rights in the commercial financing agreement from a company named Medifund…