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Title: Doctors Hospital 1997, L.P. v. Houston, L.P.
Author : In the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas
Release Date : January 28, 2004
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 63 KB

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Show Business Entertainment, a music band, prevailed in its suit against Sambuca, a restaurant, and Doctors Hospital, the host of a party at Sambuca, when neither paid the band for playing at a Christmas party. Sambuca, in turn, successfully claimed that Doctors Hospital was responsible for the bands fees. On appeal, Doctors Hospital complains only about attorneys fees awarded to Sambuca. First, it asserts the fees should not have been awarded because Sambuca recovered on a promissory estoppel claim, not a contract claim, and second, it argues the court should not have reopened the evidence to receive testimony about Sambucas attorneys fees. We modify the judgment to delete the attorneys fee award because Sambuca recovered on its promissory estoppel claim, which, under Texas law, is available to a claimant only when a valid contract does not exist, and the attorneys fee statute is limited to valid contract claims.