County of Franklin v. Blake

Franklin county, plaintiff in error here, by bill in equity filed in the circuit court of said county sought to have declared as escheated to the county certain real estate described in said bill. A demurrer was sustained to the bill and the bill dismissed. On appeal to this court the decree of the circuit court was affirmed on the ground that proceedings for escheated property, being statutory, can only be prosecuted in a court of law. (Franklin County v. Blake, 247 Ill. 500.) Subsequently an information was filed in the Franklin county circuit court seeking to have declared as escheated the…