Roberson v. Home Owners' Loan Corp.

BOND, Chief Justice.

The defendant in error, Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, plaintiff in the court below, instituted this suit in a district court of Dallas County against plaintiffs in error, as defendants, primarily for debt and foreclosure of deed of trust lien on the property in suit; and, alternatively, in trespass to try title. The parties will be designated herein as they were in the court below.

Plaintiff alleged, in substance, that it was a “corporate instrumentality of the United States of America,” and that, on or about the 17th day of January, 1935, the defendants, Marvin Roberson…