Allison v. Forney State Bank

GUITTARD, Justice.

Forney State Bank sued Alan Allison for a declaratory judgment establishing title to a promissory note. Both the bank and Allison rely on purported assignments from Gay Bryan, assignee of the original payee. The bank’s assignment appears to be earlier and must prevail if genuine. The trial court rendered summary judgment for the bank. We reverse on the ground that the summary-judgment proof raises a fact issue of forgery of the assignment from Bryan to the bank and that failure of defendant Allison to verify his plea of forgery did not justify the trial court in disregarding…