Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-02-14
VIRGINIA:

A T Circuit Superior Court Of Law and
IA Chancery, held for the County of Spotsyi-
vania, at the Court House in the Town of Ere
dercksburg, on the 18th day of June, 1888,
Humphrey Peake and others, plaintiffs,
Ann p. Leachman and others, Defendants.
The defendant, Ann E. Leachman, having in
termarried with William Dickinson, that fact ia
suggested the Record, and the subpoena,
awarded in this cause to answer the amended
bill Of the plaintiffs having been returned exc
cuted on the defendant Ann P. Leachman ano
more than four months having elapsed since thc
return day thereof and she still falling to an
swer the same the said amended bill is taker
for confessed as to that defendant; and it ar-
pearing to the Court that the plaintiffs HAYS
proceeded in the mode prescribed by law agains5
the absent defendants, John Love, Charles :.
Love- aud Thomson F. Mason; and those de.
PENDANTS still falling to answer the said amend
ed bill is taken for confessed as to those defend
ants; and this cause coming on to be heard or
the bills of the plaintiffs the answer of John
Leachman, and the answers of the defendants
John Love, Ann P. Leachman, Ann E., Robert
Co. Sarah A., William r. and Thomas l.. Leach
man, infant children of John Leachman by Ann
P. Leachman, their guardian ad Item, the eXa-
mination of witnesses and exhibits, and was ar
gued by counsellor consideration whereof
the Court doth adjudge, order, and decree, thai
unless the defendants, or some one of them,
shall deposit in the Farmers Bank of Virginia,
at Fredericksburg, to the credit of this cause
the sum of five thousand dollars, with interest
thereon at six per cent. per annum from the
26th day of Jnne, 1919, and also the following
sums to wit: three hundred and sixty dollars
with the like interest from the 18th day of Aug,
ust ISlS and nine dollars and ninety-three
cents; ten hundred and sXty-five dollars, with
the like interest from the DIST day of August,
1918, and nine dollars and ninety-three cents:
three hundred and twenty four dollars, with the
like interest from the 2Sth day of August 1918,
and nine dollars and nnety-three cents; nine
hundred dollars, with the like interest from the
l1th>day Of September, 1918, and nine dollars
and ninety-three cents, on or before the eXplrS-
ton of six months from the date hereof then,
and in that event, the Court doth adjudge order
and decree, that Lawrence w. Berry and Tho
mas B. Barton, or one of them, who are hereby
appointed Commissioners for that purpose after
first advertising the time and place of sale, for
four weeks successfully, in one or more news
papers published in the State ofVrginia or Dis
trict Of Columbia, expose to sale, at public auc-
ton, the Tracts of Land conveyed by the deeds
of the 18th day OfJanuary, 1918, and ofthe LIST
day of June, 1920, and which are filed as eXhi-
bits in this cause, for as much cash as may be
sufficient to defray the expenses ofthe SALE anG
upon credit ofOne and two years as t. the re-
sidue ofthe purchase money, taking bonds and
good security from the purchaser or purchas-
ers, and deed of trust upon the premises to
secure the payment thereof and the said Com
missioners are hereby required to report their
herein to the Court
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