Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1911 — TO APPEAL SWAMP LAND SUITS. [ARTICLE]

TO APPEAL SWAMP LAND SUITS.

Preparations have been made in the offite of the attorney-gen-eral to appeal a number of Kankakee land cases from the decision of the Starke circuit court to the supreme court. Under the decisions in the lower court, given when John C. Billheimer was auditor of state, any person obtaining a title to certain reclaimed lands on the edge of a swamp, may hold title to the entire section of which title to a part had been taken, when the remainder of the section has been drained, provided the remainder of the section was a swamp when the original title was obtained. TKe question of title to thousands of acres in the northwest part of the state is affected by the case.