State v. Allen

The Chancellor :

This case is before me upon a motion, made by the state, to appoint a receiver to take charge, pending the litigation, of the property in dispute consisting of realty in Nashville.

The bill was filed, on the 21st of February, 1873, under the provisions of the act of May 26, 1866, ch. 46, amending the law of escheats, to have the estate of one Wm. P. Downs, who died in 1863, declared escheated because the deceased left no widow, nor issue, nor relatives entitled to inherit by the laws of descent. The right to the relief sought is based upon the fact of the illegitimacy of Downs,…