Failing v. Equity Management Corp.

OPINION

DUGGAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a plaintiff’s judgment entered on a jury verdict in a suit on a lease agreement.

The trial court allowed a post-verdict, pre-judgment amendment of the plaintiff’s pleadings to delete its unproven claim for incremental attorney’s fees in the event of appeal. That action reduced the total monetary claim originally asserted to an amount within county court-at-law jurisdiction.

In 1978, appellant and another person leased space in a Houston office building from TRICO Service Corporation (TSC). In 1979, the lease was assigned by the lessor to David B.…