By Ahmed Humble | Click2Houston
HOUSTON – According to recent court documents obtained by KPRC 2′s Gage Goulding, former partners Benson and Patsy Vivares filed a temporary injunction in late May against Bun B, whose real name is Bernard Freeman, and partners with Trill Burgers.
The legal battle revolves around the Vivares siblings accusing Bun B of stealing their recipe, while Trill Burgers’ co-owners countered by claiming funds were being misappropriated, leading to Vivares’ eventual exit.
The temporary injunction is legal talk for the court ordering Trill Burgers to stop paying owners a management fee and ordering a reporting of expenditures of over $10,000. The court also ordered Trill Burgers to repay attorney’s fees and forbade entities and owners from hiring counsel. Violating this order would result in, the court documents claim, “irreparable injury to Trill Burgers, LLC.”
“The wrongdoing includes forming and operating competing businesses, misappropriation of corporate opportunities, misappropriation of assets, other breaches of fiduciary duties,” the lawsuit adds. “Anyone acting in concert with them or at their instruction…Trill Burgers, LLC will be irreparably injured, including by loss of customers, loss of assets, loss of goodwill, disruption and cessation of business operations, diminution in value, and lost profits which are difficult or incapable of being ascertained.”
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