Unknown Owner v. State

CONNER, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by the State of Texas, acting through its county attorney, against the alleged “unknown owner” of lot six in block five in the town of Stanton, Martin County, for the sum of ten dollars and ninety-nine cents taxes and the further sum of twenty-six dollars and fifty cents penalty, interest and costs. The trial, which was before the court without a jury, resulted in a judgment in favor of the State with foreclosure of tax lien and order of sale as prayed for.

The objections urged to the citation in the first assignment are not maintainable. This< was a…