TRANSAMERICA TITLE INS. CO. v. SAN BENITO BK. AND TRUST CO.

No. 13-87-349-CV.

756 S.W.2d 772 (1988)

TRANSAMERICA TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. SAN BENITO BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Denied August 31, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank L. Heard, Jr., Michael W. Mengis, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, R.K. Whittington, Stapleton, Whittington, Curtis, Harlingen, for appellant.

Richard D. Schell, Wiley & Fleuriet, Harlingen, Russell H. McMains, McMains & Constant, Corpus Christi, for appellee.

Before SEERDEN, UTTER and BENAVIDES, JJ.


OPINION

SEERDEN, Justice.

A jury found that Transamerica Title Insurance Co. (Transamerica) breached its contract, was grossly negligent, conspired with a bank to the detriment of its insured, and breached its duty of good faith and fair dealing to its insured in a case involving the title company's negotiation of a claim arising when a bank posted foreclosure of a prior lien which the title company had omitted in its description of the insured's interest...

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