Bellah v. First National Bank of Hereford

Petitioner attacked the validity of a trustee’s sale under a deed of trust covering multiple tracts of land. The alleged ground of invalidity was that the sale of the tracts en masse resulted in a grossly inadequate selling price. An adverse judgment was affirmed by the court of civil appeals. 478 S.W.2d 636. Petitioner’s only point here relates to three of the tracts which he purchased under the Veterans Land Program. He argues that he was without power to mortgage his beneficial interest in these three tracts, and that their sale was void for this reason. This was not pleaded by him,…