Fairbanks v. State

The claimant in this case filed his claim against the State with the Auditor of Public Accounts on the 11th day of May, 1880.

The petition filed with said claim states in substance that the claimant is the owner of the southeast quarter of section ten, township twenty-nine, north of range 3 west of the third P. M., Marshall county, Illinois, and was the owner of said land prior to October 20, 1877. That all of said lands are situated in what is known as “The Bottoms” and low lands bordering upon the Illinois river and had always been subject to an inundation from floods and high water in the…