{"id":50731,"date":"2010-11-09T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T08:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=50731"},"modified":"2010-11-10T02:34:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T08:34:28","slug":"ag-reaches-agreement-with-cass-county-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=50731","title":{"rendered":"AG Reaches Agreement with Cass County Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=50732\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50732\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/11\/attorney-general-seal-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"attorney general seal\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-50732\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLINDEN &#8212; Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has reached an agreement with a Cass County horse seller that misrepresented the nature and health of its animals. Under the agreed final judgment, the defendant must pay restitution to customers who purchased sick or unhealthy animals. The agreement also prohibits the defendant from continuing to engage in the horse business.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s resolution stems from the State\u2019s 2009 investigation and enforcement action against E-Tex Equine Co. and its owner, Patricia Wilson. State investigators found the defendant unlawfully sold horses that were blind, injured, sick and lacked up-to-date documentation proving that individual animals had been tested for infectious disease. Wilson conducted business with customers in several states without disclosing the animals true health conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The agreed final judgment and permanent injunction requires Wilson to restore $65,300 to customers who were misled about the animals and her services. Wilson must also pay $10,000 in civil penalties and $15,000 in state attorney\u2019s fees under the judgment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LINDEN &#8212; Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has reached an agreement with a Cass County horse seller that misrepresented the nature and health of its animals. Under the agreed final judgment, the defendant must pay restitution to customers who purchased sick or unhealthy animals. The agreement also prohibits the defendant from continuing to engage in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=50731\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AG Reaches Agreement with Cass County Woman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 11:43:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50731"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51000,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50731\/revisions\/51000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}