Napper v. Johnson

OPINION

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by plaintiffs Napper and wife from a take nothing judgment, in a suit to cancel an instrument in the form of a deed, which plaintiffs executed to defendant Johnson on their home. Plaintiffs assert the instrument was intended to operate as a mortgage.

Plaintiffs sued defendant alleging they owned their home in Dallas; that they requested a $15,000. loan from defendant; that defendant to mask the real effect of the transaction required plaintiffs to sign a deed to their property; that the deed is void because in truth and in fact it was an…