Holmstrom v. Lee

BEA ANN SMITH, Justice.

Appellant Jon Holmstrom appeals from the district court’s order denying his motion for summary judgment and granting partial summary judgment in favor of ap-pellees Edward and Josephine Lee. We will affirm the summary judgment in favor of the Lees in part, reverse and render summary judgment in favor of Holmstrom in part, and remand the issue of attorney’s fees to the district court.

Holmstrom owned forty-three acres of land in Caldwell County. In 1986, he signed a deed of trust covering two acres to secure a loan to build a house on that tract. The two-acre tract is…