Robbyn Elizabeth Coy Arriola, Joey Arriola, Jack Henry Lawson, and Raven Jonae Pritchett v. Tommy Kutscherousky, Sr., d/b/a Kutscherousky Farms

Summary

This document is an appellants’ brief in a Texas intermediate appellate court appeal concerning a dispute over a farm lease. The appellants challenge a money judgment arising from alleged breaches involving hunting or trapping feral hogs, nonpayment of rent, fence maintenance, lease termination, and the authority or ratification of co-owners. They also raise issues concerning the jury verdict, the parol evidence rule, and the sufficiency of the evidence.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the jury's verdict supported the judgment when it did not determine essential lease terms.
2. Whether Joey or Robbyn Arriola had actual or apparent authority to bind co-tenants Jack Lawson and Raven Pritchett to the lease.
3. Whether Jack Lawson and Raven Pritchett ratified the lease.
4. Whether the July 6, 2011 written lease was the parties' integrated agreement and whether the parol evidence rule barred reliance on the May 26, 2011 document and alleged prior oral agreement.
5. Whether trapping feral hogs constituted hunting prohibited by the lease.
6. Whether the lessees breached the lease by failing to pay rent and maintain the fence line.
7. Whether the appellants breached the lease by terminating it.

Disposition

other