Hart v. Eason

This is an action in trespass to try title brought by petitioners, Lamar Hart and wife, against respondent, Winston G. Eason, the property involved being a house and lot in the city of Beaumont. The sole issue on the trial was whether a sale to respondent of petitioners’ property at public auction on November 1, 1955, the first Tuesday in the month, under a power contained in a deed of trust executed by them and later assigned to respondent was invalid by reason of a failure to post a notice of such sale at the Jefferson County courthouse door. It was the the claim of respondent that he…