Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1912 — STATE TO FIGHT FOR LAND [ARTICLE]

STATE TO FIGHT FOR LAND

Claims of Chicago Bank and Others in Kankakee County Contested. Laporte, Ind., Feb. 7.—Adam Wise of Marshall county has been retained by Governor Marshall to prosecute action in the courts of the t-tate for the recovery of lands in the Kankakee river country involving (between $500,000 and $600,0-00. Title is claimed by the Northern Trust Company of Chicago, and others, Governor Marshall holds that t&e state is entitled to possession to lands along the river, which have been redlaimed.