Williams v. Merchants State Bank & Trust Co.

MURRAY, Justice.

This suit was instituted by Frank R. Williams against Merchants State Bank & Trust Company, E. J. Dryden, Marshall Eskridge, H. B. Zachry, and Union National Bank, to impress a trust on 6,348 acres of land lying and being situated in Jim Hogg and Zapata Counties (known as *792the Garza land) and the income therefrom, for termination of the alleged trust and distribution of the alleged trust funds and property.

Merchants State Bank & Trust Company and H. B. Zachry answered by denying the existence of the trust and pleading the illegality of the consideration upon which plaintiff’s…