Robert Parker's Truck & Trailer Repair, Inc. v. Speer

OPINION

LEVY, Justice.

Appeal is taken in an assignment of account case where, in a bench trial, the court entered judgment against appellant, the account debtor, for $86,603.35 plus $3,500 in attorney’s fees, plus interest and costs, and in favor of appellee, the assignee of the account.

The appellant is in the business of selling and repairing trucks. In December of 1980, appellant sold 12 trucks to El Tex Drilling Company that were to be equipped with rigging before delivery. Ted Pennington, sales manager for appellant, arranged for the rigging work to be performed by K & K Truck Rigging…