Julian v. State

This is an action for the value of appellants’ services as attorneys in and about the prosecution of certain actions on behalf of the State to recover real estate belonging to the State.

The plaintiffs, the appellants, filed their complaint in the Marion Superior Court, in this case. It is alleged in the complaint that the Governor, and other State officers of *69the State of Indiana, having wholly failed for nearly twenty years prior to October, 1879, to institute proceedings to recover certain lands described in the complaint, or to take any steps to protect the rights of the State, on said day…