Morris v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Co.

OPINION

Ken Wise, Justice

This case involves a home-equity loan encumbering the appellants’ homestead with a lien created by a constitutionally noncompliant deed of trust. When the appellants defaulted on the loan, the lender sold their home at a non-judicial foreclosure sale and evicted the appellants. The appellants appeal the trial court’s summary judgment dismissing their claims against the lender, arguing that the Supreme Court of Texas’s recent decision in Wood v. HSBC Bank USA, N.A., 505 S.W.3d 542 (Tex. 2016), compels a reversal. For the reasons explained below, we affirm in part,…