Bodnow Corp. v. City of Hondo

OPINION

The issue in this appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion when it assessed joint and several monetary sanctions against the Bodnow Corporation for failing to comply with proper discovery requests. We hold that the trial court did.

Bodnow intervened in a lawsuit in which several parties (the “original plaintiffs”) were seeking a refund of ad valorem taxes that they had paid to the City of Hondo and Hondo Independent School District. Bod-now only intervened against HISD. After granting summary judgment for the City and HISD, the trial court imposed two discovery sanctions…