Hamilton v. Brown
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. ThiS was an action brought April 12, 1890, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas, by Joseph F. Hamilton, a citizen of Missouri, Lewis Hamilton, and Mary A. Post, joined by her husband George Post, citizens of Illinois, Walter B. Hamilton, and Elizabeth Fulton, joined by her husband John G. Fulton, citizens of Kansas, and John F. Hamilton, a citizen of…
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. ThiS was an action brought April 12, 1890, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas, by Joseph F. Hamilton, a citizen of Missouri, Lewis Hamilton, and Mary A. Post, joined by her husband George Post, citizens of Illinois, Walter B. Hamilton, and Elizabeth Fulton, joined by her husband John G. Fulton, citizens of Kansas, and John F. Hamilton, a citizen of Colorado, against J. T. Brown and twenty-five others, all citizens of Texas, and living in the county of Fayette, within the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
This was an action to recover land in the county of Fayette and State of Texas.
The petition alleged that the land was granted in 1831 by the Republic of Mexico to Walter F. Hamilton, and that on April 13, 1888, the plaintiffs were the owners in fee simple and entitled to the possession, thereof, and the defendants then ousted them.
The defendants, in their answer, relied on proceedings in escheat, commenced in 1861, and in which judgment was .rendered in 1871.
In those proceedings, as set forth in the answer, the attor ney for the State alleged that Walter Hamilton died, intestate and without…
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