Jessica Briones v. Brazos Bend Villa Apartments

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• concluding that landlord could not be considered “prevailing” party in forcible detainer action for purposes of recovering attorney’s fees and court costs because evidence was legally insufficient to prove that landlord gave tenant statutory notice to vacate
• rejecting argument that “any failure to give the statutory notice is harmless error”
• “Because forcible detainer is a statutory cause of action, a landlord must strictly comply with its requirements.”
• sufficiency challenges to implied findings should be reviewed under the same standards as sufficiency challenges to jury findings or a trial court's express findings of fact
• where the appellant “present[s] a contention that the lease was not properly terminated in the first place,” the appellant “assert[s] a right to current possession of the premises”
• “The statutory notice to vacate 6 is not a step for terminating the lease. Instead, the statutory notice to vacate is a separate notice required for obtaining possession of the premises via forcible detainer once the lease has been terminated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).