In re the Payment of Unclaimed Deposits in the Superior Court ex rel. State

*329The opinion of the court was delivered by

Conford, J. A. D.

On February 28, 1928 a surplus

of $4,217.78 arising from the sale on -fieri facias by the sheriff of Essex County of certain mortgaged property, then in foreclosure, was paid into the office of the clerk of the former Court of Chancery. Having been unclaimed for over ten years, this sum, with accretions of interest increasing the total to $6,552.05, was subsequently paid the State Treasurer for the use of the State as an “unclaimed deposit” under L. 1947, c. 72, as amended, now N. J. 8. 2A :15-76. The property foreclosed had belonged to…