Starr v. Ferguson

Mr. Presiding Judge Smedley

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

The Court of Civil Appeals affirmed a judgment of district court in favor of respondent Mrs. Nellie C. Ferguson against petitioners S. A. Starr and Mrs. Mae Starr, former husband and wife, establishing a debt and a deéd of trust lien on several sections of land in Brewster County and foreclosing the lien. (Not reported.)

Two questions are presented. The first is whether a letter, written by S. A. Starr to Mrs. Ferguson before he and his wife were divorced, is a sufficient acknowledgment of the debt to toll…