Burbridge v. Hicks

HAMBLEN, Chief Justice.

This suit was originally instituted in the District 'Court' of Harris County by appel-lees, seeking therein to cancel a note and deed of trust on certain real property located in the City of Houston, and further seeking damages, actual and exemplary, in the sum of $40,000 on account of alleged fraud and deceit practiced upon appellees by the appellants. Ancillary to this suit appellees sought a temporary injunction restraining appellants during the pendency of *679the suit from interfering with appellees’ peaceful possession of the property and from foreclosing upon the…