Meadowcroft v. Winnebago County

Richard Horsefall, a naturalized citizen of the United States, died intestate in Winnebago county, Illinois, February 1,1894, leaving no widow, child or children, and no descendants of a child or children, seized in fee of certain real property in said county. Thereafter escheat proceedings were begun by the county under the provisions of chapter 49 of our statute, in which the deceased was found to have left no heirs and his property declared to escheat to the county. Subsequently, July 28, 1897, this suit was begun in the circuit court of that county, on the chancery side, under the…