Burchell v. Strube

This is an appeal from a judgment in an interpleader action which held the appellant's claim to be barred under the defensive plea of res judicata.

Walter C. Cox is in the business of heir-hunting. Lucy Falkner, Charles J. C. Strube, and Reinhold Strube were the heirs of Charles G. Moore. Cox obtained written assignments of 40 per cent of each heir’s interest in Moore’s estate in consideration for his having revealed the existence of the estate and his promise to devote his time and incur the expense of investigating and procuring proof of their relationship to the decedent. While the estate…