State Ex Rel. Knox v. Sisters of Mercy

Appellant, the state, on the relation of the attorney-g’eneral, filed its bill in the chancery court of Adams county against appellees the Sisters of Mercy of Vicksburg, Bight B ever end Bichard Gerow, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Natchez, Miss Emma Wood, whose religious name is Sister Imelda, and appellants Frank J. Julienne, Louis N. Julienne, Paul Julienne, Adolph L. Julienne, Harriett Julienne, W. S. Profilet, and Mrs. Louis J. Snelling to escheat to the state a considerable amount of valuable real estate situated in the city of Natchez, upon the ground that it was being held by the…