First City Bank-Farmers Branch, Tex. v. Guex

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “If the legislature had intended recovery of attorney’s fees under [section 9.507(a) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code], they would no doubt have provided for it_”
• \[A]n award of attorney's fees may not be supplied by implication but must be provided for by the express terms of the statute in question.\
• “If the legislature had intended recovery of attorney’s fees under [section 9.507(a) of the Texas Business and Commerce Code], they would no doubt have provided for it, just as they provided for the recovery of attorney’s fees under the [DTPA]-”
• “It is the sole province of the trier of fact, here the jury, to judge the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be given their testimony.”
• “[o]bviously the drafters of the Uniform Commercial Code intended . . . to penalize the secured party if the debtor suffered no losses or his losses were less that the statutory penalty”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).