LAND TITLE CO. OF DALLAS, INC. v. F. M. STIGLER, INC.

No. B-9272.

609 S.W.2d 754 (1980)

LAND TITLE COMPANY OF DALLAS, INC., et al., Petitioners, v. F. M. STIGLER, INC., et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied January 21, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cowles, Sorrels, Patterson & Thompson, R. Brent Cooper, Dallas, DeLange, Hudspeth, Pitman & Katz, Eugene J. Pitman, Sellers & Berg, Michael G. Tapp, Houston, for petitioners.

Storey, Armstrong, Steger & Martin, Hugh L. Steger, Robert S. Addison and Frederick W. Addison, III, Dallas, for respondents.


DENTON, Justice:

This priority of liens case involves the question of ratification by a principal of the unauthorized act of its agent. Floyd M. Stigler, Inc. and others sued Leon D. Hogg, Jr. for recovery on its note and for judicial foreclosure of its deed of trust. Stigler also sued HNC Realty Company to set aside the foreclosure sale, to declare the subordination agreement invalid, and to declare its prior deed of trust lien superior to HNC's deed of trust. Hogg...

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