Parr v. Tagco Industries

REYNOLDS, Chief Justice.

The actions underlying and material to this appeal consist of an original suit on a sworn account and a counterclaim and cross-action seeking damages for, inter alia, usurious interest charged and acts declared unlawful by the Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act (DTPA). 1 The trial court accepted the jury’s verdict which, when properly interpreted, authorizes relief under the cross-action, but the court rendered a take-nothing judgment against all parties. Affirmed in part; reversed and rendered in part.

In the spring of 1975, Bruce Parr, a Parmer County…