State ex rel. Attorney General v. Meyer

This was an information, in the nature of a quo warranto, filed by the attorney general of this State, as the relator of -the appellant, in the circuit court of Knox county, against the appellee, as defendant, for the recovery of certain real estate, particularly described, in said county, which real estate, it was alleged, had escheated to the State of Indiana, for the use and benefit of its common school fund.

In said information it was alleged, in substance, that, on the 14th day of May, 1861, one Margaretta Ormand became the owner, in fee-simple, of said real estate, by purchase, of the…