State of California v. Tagami

This appeal is prosecuted by the State of California as plaintiff from a judgment in favor of the defendants after an order sustaining their demurrer to the complaint, the plaintiff declining to amend. The action is one instituted by the state at the instance of the attorney-general, seeking to have an escheat declared and enforced as to a certain leasehold interest in certain lands and premises described in its said complaint. The basic facts upon which the action is predicated, as averred in the complaint, are these. On and prior to the first day of September, 1918, the defendant, Ramon D.…