Court Opinion

ID: 9774661
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 18:28:57.833976+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:12.817794
License: Public Domain

OPINION ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
On rehearing, the Hunts claim that we erred by failing to address their point of error allegedly attacking the jury’s failure to find a breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing by HNG.
This Court has held that absent some “special relationship” created between the parties, the relationship of a lessor and lessee is purely contractual. See Cambridge Oil Co. v. Huggins, 765 S.W.2d 540, 544 (Tex.App—Corpus Christi 1989, writ denied). Thus, there is no cause of action for the breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing in the ordinary lessor/lessee relationship.
We find neither evidence in the record supporting a special relationship nor argument in the Hunt’s brief directed to such a claim. Indeed, the concepts of special relationship and breach of good faith and fair dealing are never addressed or even alluded to in the Hunts’ brief. See Tex.R. App.P. 74(f). The Hunts’ motion for rehearing is denied.