Paul v. Willis

Citations

• 69 Tex. 261
• 7 S.W. 357
• 1887 Tex. LEXIS 815

Syllabus

<p>1. Administration. — An administration on the estate of one who fell at' the massacre at Goliad in 1836, which was begun ten years after Ms death, ■ will be conclusively presumed to have been illegal, in the absence of some fact affirmatively shown to establish its necessity.</p> <p>'8. Same. — Under such an administration nothing was done except to file an inventory. Seven years thereafter another application was filed to reopen the administration, m wMch the place where the deceased died! was falsely stated, and which disclosed no ground for the administration1 except that a creditor had employed the applicant for letters, who was1 an attorney, to collect a claim for him, held-. That such administration was void, and no legal rights could be acquired by a purchaser under it.</p> <p>8. Judgment. — A void judgment is always subject to collateral attack, and it can derive no legal sanction from lapse of time.</p>