Glenn Vickery and Dianne Richards, Petitioners v. Helen Roberta Vickery, Respondent

Summary

The Texas Supreme Court denied the petition for review, affirming the trial court's judgment and the Court of Appeals' affirmation. It held that Texas law does not permit a separate tort action for actual fraud or punitive damages against a spouse and that mental anguish damages are unavailable for legal malpractice when the loss is purely economic. Justice Hecht dissented, arguing the Court should have applied its own recent decisions in Schlueter and Douglas.