Dallas Trust & Savings Bank v. Pickett

ALEXANDER, Justice.

This action was brought by Mildred Pickett and her son, Ray Pickett, in trespass to try title to recover from the loan company a house and lot in the city of Waco. In the alternative the plaintiffs sought to cancel certain notes and a deed of trust on the property executed by W. A. Wilkerson to the loan company. The real purpose of the suit was to cancel the notes and deed of trust. The plaintiffs alleged that in July, 1925, Mildred Pickett and Edward Pickett, the latter now deceased, were husband and wife and used and occupied the property as a homestead; that Edward…