Court Opinion

ID: 9773867
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 18:01:37.437333+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:58.599489
License: Public Domain

WALKER, Justice
(concurring).
While I concur in the judgment rendered in this case, I do not interpret Van Zandt v. Fort Worth Press, Tex.Sup., 359 S.W.2d 893, as holding that claims for “personal services” within the meaning of Article 2226 are only those claims for services rendered by the claimant personally. Our opinion in that case expressly reserved the question of whether a corporation might recover attorney’s fees in a suit on a claim for personal services. It is true that the statute must be strictly construed, but this does not mean that we should go out of our way to limit its scope. I would hold that a corporation may, in a proper case, recover attorney’s fees when the claim is strictly for labor done or personal services rendered by the corporation, through its employees, to the defendant.
GREENHILL, J., joins in this concurring opinion.