Natl. Bank v. Ford, Administrator

Mr. Judge Hickman

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section A.

Robert F. Ford is administrator of the estate of Denton W. Cooley, deceased. The Second National Bank, of Houston, and J. H. Rafferty presented a claijn to the administrator based upon three notes, each in the principal sum of $2500.00, signed “Denton W. Cooley, trustee,” payable to the order of A. C. Bayless and indorsed by him to Rafferty without recourse. The notes were secured by a deed of trust executed by Cooley as trustee upon certain real estate situated in Harris County, theretofore conveyed to him as…