Franklin County v. Blake

This is a bill in chancery, filed by the State’s attorney of Franklin county on behalf of that county, seeking to have certain real estate therein described decreed to be vested in Franklin county. The suit was evidently intended to be brought under the act of 1874 in relation to escheats. The defendants named in the bill were served by the ordinary chancery summons. The prayer of the bill was for scire facias, returnable to the next tenn, requiring the defendants to show cause why the legal title to the real estate in question should not be vested in the county of Franklin; that certain…