Rogers v. State

In April, 1840, Absalom Holcomb borrowed of the agent of the surplus revenue fund of Allen county, the sum of 200 dollars, and executed a mortgage on a certain tract of land to secure the payment. Holcomb died intestate and insolvent, and Rogers was appointed his administrator. At the January term, 1854, of the Court of Common Pleas of Allen county, the state, by her attorney, filed a petition showing the above facts, and prayed an order for the payment of her debt in full out of Holcomb's estate. The administrator answered the petition, and set up a sale and conveyance of the land in fee…