County of Franklin v. Blake

The State’s attorney filed an information in behalf of the county in the circuit court of Franklin county, in which he claimed that certain lands therein described had es-cheated to the county. The court sustained a demurrer to the information, but neither adjudged that the county, take nothing by the writ nor that the defendants go hence without day, and the order of the court contained no words of equivalent meaning. The recital in the record is as follows: “The court having heretofore heard the argument of counsel and being fully advised in the premises, the defendants’ demurrer to the…