Hufstedler v. Barnett

STOKES, Justice.

This is an action in trespass to try title to 155 acres of land in Lubbock County. The record reveals that S. M. Hufstedler owned the land in 1916, and on November 22, 1916, he encumbered it by a deed of trust to secure an indebtedness of $5500, evidenced by a note payable to Temple Trust Company. By various assignments of the indebtedness and deed of trust lien, they ultimately became the property of General American Life Insurance Company, and on November 20,1933, in a suit filed by that company in the District Court of Bell County to recover on the note and foreclose the…