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GREENPOINT CREDIT CORP. v. PEREZ

No. 04-01-00188-CV.

75 S.W.3d 40 (2002)

GREENPOINT CREDIT CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Ninfa PEREZ, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

Rehearing Overruled March 4, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. Bruce Johnson, Bob Frisch, Law Offices of B. Bruce Johnson, Dallas, Mark R. Paisley, Adami, McNeill, Paisley & Appel, P.C., Alice, Sharon E. Callaway, Nissa M. Sanders, Thomas H. Crofts, Jr., Crofts & Callaway, P.C., San Antonio, for Appellant.

Douglas A. Allison, Law Office of Douglas A. Allison, Corpus Christi, Timothy Patton, Timothy Patton, P.C., San Antonio, for Appellee.

Sitting: PHIL HARDBERGER, Chief Justice, TOM RICKHOFF, Justice, and PAUL W. GREEN, Justice.

Opinion by PHIL HARDBERGER, Chief Justice.

This unfair debt collections act case involves an illegal threat by a finance company to put an elderly woman in jail for a debt that she did not owe, on a mobile home she did not own. A jury awarded substantial actual and punitive damages. The case comes to this court principally on the excessiveness of actual damages, and the absence of the predicate requirements necessary to impose damages against the corporation, as opposed...

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