Court Opinion

ID: 9668938
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 02:32:45.520902+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:50.223982
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ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
CURTISS BROWN, Chief Justice.
In its motion for rehearing appellee has pointed out to us that the $4,245.69 in attorney’s fees awarded it by the trial court was not for work done in the instant case against appellant, but rather was for fees awarded it in its previous suit against National. The Guaranty Agreement between appellant and appellee provided that appellant unconditionally guaranteed the payment of
“all costs and expenses, including attorney’s fees and Court costs, for which the Borrower may be or become liable, and which may arise in the enforcement of this guaranty.”
Although due to appellee’s excessive demands appellant may not be held liable for any attorney’s fees which arose in the enforcement of the guaranty, we feel that appellant must still be held contractually responsible for attorney’s fees for which the borrower, National, has become liable.
We therefore sustained the fifth point of appellee’s motion for rehearing and amend our former judgment to include the following:
that appellee Small Business Investment Company of Houston recover from appellant Warrior Constructors, Inc. the sum of $4,245.69 as attorney’s fees for the previous suit by appellee against National Electric Corporation, together with 6% interest on said attorney’s fees from May 6, 1971 until paid.
In all other respects appellee’s motion for rehearing is overruled.