Dallas Joint Stock Land Bank v. Phillips

This case is before us on petition for mandamus by the relator to require the Judge of the 116th District Court, Dallas County, to proceed to trial in a pending cause, No. 6230, styled the Dallas Joint Stock Land Bank v. Miriam A. Ferguson et al. The uncontroverted facts stated below appear from the petition for mandamus.

On January 15, 1923, the respondents Miriam A. Ferguson and her husband, James E. Ferguson, executed and delivered to the relator their note in the principal sum of $40,000.00, payable in installments, and at the same time executed a deed of trust securing the payment thereof…