The statute of limitations runs against the state the same as it does against an individual, the statute providing:55 "No suit for the recovery of land shall be commenced by or in behalf of the people of this state, unless within fifteen years after the right or title of the people of the state therein first accrued, or within fifteen years after the said people, or those from or through whom they claim, shall have been seized or possessed of the premises, or shall have received the rents and profits of the same, or some part thereof."

By reason of another section of the same act, the foregoing provisions of the statute do not apply to actions brought by municipal corporations for the recovery of possession of any public highway, street or alley, or other public ground.56