Harrell v. Surface

This is a suit to foreclose a deed of trust and for other relief. The trial court found for defendants and entered a judgment dismissing plaintiff’s suit, whereupon plaintiff appealed.

The petition alleged that on September 17, 1927, the defendants Walter J. Surface and Hazel R. Surface, his.wife, being the owners of certain real estate (farm land described in said petition), duly executed a deed of trust, whereby they conveyed said real estate to W. P. Oliver, trustee, to secure the payment of an indebtedness of said defendants to John F. Lilly and Blanche Harrell, which indebtedness was…