Houston Title Guaranty Company v. Fontenot

WERLEIN, Justice.

This suit was brought by appellees, Euel B. Fontenot, and wife, against appellant, Houston Title Guaranty Company, on an owner’s title insurance policy to recover attorney’s fees and expenses which they alleged they were required to expend in defending a former boundary suit, Collis v. Fontenot, because of appellant’s breach of its covenant in said policy to defend them as the insured in such suit. In a trial before the court, without a jury, judgment was rendered in favor of appellees against appellant in the amount of $1,168.24.

It was stipulated that appellees had acquired…