Court Opinion

ID: 9666490
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:17:37.865839+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:29.410574
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On Motions for Rehearing.
The second motion for rehearing by F. F. Quaile complains that we rendered judgment against him for exemplary damages in the absence of findings which support actual damages against him. The jury found that Quaile interfered with the performance of the contract, and that finding has support in the evidence. The jury found also that the market value of the property on June 24, 1955, was $28,000. The contract price was $24,500. Since the measure of damages for tortious interference with the contract is the same as *131the measure of damages for breach of contract, the judgment should be and is rendered jointly and severally against Quaile as' well as the Whitehursts for actual damages in the amount of $3,500, and for exemplary damages against Quaile for $4,000. Raymond v. Yarrington, 96 Tex. 443, 72 S.W. 580, 73 S.W. 800, 62 L.R.A. 962; American Surety Co. v. Shaw, Tex.Com.App., 69 S.W.2d 47, 52; Day v. Hunnicutt, Tex.Civ.App., 160 S.W. 134.
The second motion for rehearing of F. F. Quaile and the third motion of the Whitehursts are overruled.