Some people are so picky about having their house repossessed when they didn't even have a bank loan let alone a loan from Bank of America. And sure, once BofA cut the power, 75 pounds of fish rotted, leaked from the fridge and smelled up the house but suing the bank is so extreme. As the bank says, this case is completely without merit.
A West End property owner is suing Bank of America Corp., asserting its agents mistakenly seized a vacation house he owns free and clear, then changed the locks and shut the power off, resulting in the smelly spoiling of about 75 pounds of salmon and halibut from an Alaska fishing trip and other damages.
Dr. Alan Schroit filed the lawsuit Monday in the 122nd State District Court in Galveston against the bank with which he has neither a relationship nor a mortgage.
Schroit, a retired professor at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, is suing for wrongful invasion of his house in the 4100 block of Green Heron Drive in the Pointe West subdivision.
