Caplen v. Compton

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

This appeal presents for our decision the validity or invalidity of a judgment of escheat, pronounced by the District Court of Harris County, on the 11th of January, 1890, in proceedings instituted by the county attorney of Harris County for the purpose of escheating land as property of the estate of one Philo C. Merwin. The appellee Compton filed his suit against appellants on the 20th of August, 1892, setting out the proceedings in escheat, and charging that they were null and void, and averring that the said Merwin was still living, and that he had since the…