Who would expect a dining-room table to deliver the goods? In a Nov. 19 final judgment, 125th District Judge Kyle Carter in Houston awarded $65,000 in damages and $102,000 in attorney fees to Daniel Jackson’s client John Herrin.

Herrin had sued a New York-based company after attempting to buy — but ultimately rejecting as unsatisfactory — a table valued by the company at $65,000 and identified as museum quality.