BOHATCH v. BUTLER & BINION

No. 14-93-00903-CV.

905 S.W.2d 597 (1995)

Colette BOHATCH, Appellant, v. BUTLER & BINION; Butler & Binion, L.L.P.; Michael W. Hilliard; Elizabeth M. Thompson; Ron Brown; Louis B. Paine, Jr.; Robert Hayden Burns; Marlon E. McDaniel; Everett A. Marley, Jr., P.C.; Joseph H. Peck, Jr., P.C.; Robert B. Reynolds, P.C.; Dan C. Cain, P.C.; Jack Lapin; Jack Lapin, P.C.; and John McDonald, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.).

Rehearing Overruled August 31, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eliot P. Tucker, H. Victor Thomas, Houston, for appellant.

Larry D. Knippa, Richard N. Countiss, David W. Holman, Houston, for appellees.

Before MURPHY, C.J., and YATES and FOWLER, JJ.


OPINION

YATES, Justice.

All parties appeal a jury verdict in favor of Colette Bohatch and against the law firm of Butler & Binion and individual members of its management committee for breach of a partnership agreement and breach of a fiduciary duty.1 The jury awarded Bohatch $307,000.00 in actual damages against all defendants and also awarded $4 million in punitive damages against partners Louis B. Paine, Jr., R. Hayden...

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