Holly Springs gazette., 1844-11-15
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~. 80 CsaEssyssss al Holly Springs.
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that the defendants John H. Watson, BenJa
min W. Walker and Mary his wife, are no'
inhabitants of this State bu: reside beyond
the limits thereof, so that the ordinary proc
ess ofthis Court cannot be served on them
Therefore il is ordered, that unless the
said defendants appear before the Vice
Chancellor AT the Court room 10 the town
of Holly Springs on the first Monday Of Jan
uary next and plead answer or demuT, to the
Bill of C6mplainants, the several allega.
tons thereof will be taken for confessed as
to them, and such order and decree made
therein as the Vice Chancellor shall deem
equitable and Just, and it is further ordered
that copy of this order be inserted in the
"HolIy Springs Gazette'' a newspaper pub.
Iished in the town ofEIolly Springs Missis>
sippi. oncca week for two months successive
ly.
JAMES C. ANDERSON Clerk.
ABSTRACT OF BILL
Charges, That sometime 10 the year lS-
35 and about the first Of the year 1886. one
Eli S. Shorter and one James G. Watson,
both then oflhe County of Muscogee and
State of Georgia. entered ioto an agreement
to purchase lands in Coparnership. in the
Chickasaw Cession State of Mississippi, and
that about an tqnal amount OF titles was to
be taken 10 the name of each that it was fur
ther agreed that each Of them should, if he
desired so TO do take IN as a partner with
him, aud TO share with him, his interest -
SAID copartnershIp, such other person o per-
sous as he might select and agreee with,
that in pursuance Of said agreement said
Shorter 8' Watson, purchased very large
amount OF lands, in said Chickasaw Cession,
/ that in order that each partner might
! have some evidence OF the interest, which
he had IN the lat ds, titles 10 which are in
the name ofthe other, said Watson executed
and delivered to said Shorter, an instrument
IN wiring showing that Shorter is entitled
to an undivided half OF forty-nine Quarter
Sections OF land, the titles 10 which were in
the hands OF SAID Watson, said Shorter hav-
ing -p1Id one half the cost, dated % Feorua-
ry 1886, said Watson executed and deliver.
ed to SAID Shorter, an instrumen. tn writing.
dated p january 1896, showing that Shor-
er is entitled to two equal undi vided third
tparts OF Twenty nine Quarter Sections and
one equal undivided third part of three
Quarters, the titles being in said Watson,
and said Shorter having paid his part of the
cost.
That at or about the same time. that said
Shorter, the two instruments of writing a.
bove named, the SAID Shorter executed and
delivered to said Watson instruments of
writing, showing the interest to which Wat
son was entitled in the lands held in the
name Of said Shorter to wit: One shelving
that Watson was entitl. d 10 one undivided !
half Of thirty four Quarter Sections. the 9th. |
er halt belonging equally 10 the said Eli S. /
Shorter and Benjamin T. Tarver & Hudson /
A. Thornton. One showing that said James |
C. Watson was entitled to one undivided /
third part OF forty five Quarter Sections.
And one showing that SAID James c. Watson
was entitled to two equal undivided third parts
OF i've Quarter Sections That said Eli S.
Shorter, departed this life intestate. sometime
in the month of December 1886, leaving a
widow Sophia Shorter and three children
his heirs, viz; Reuben c. Shorter since of
the age of twenty one years, and Nlarv
Jane Shorter, since lntermarried with John
A. Urquhart, and of the age of majority.
ana Virginia Shorter one of CompIanants,
and that Compl James Fl. Shorter. in con,
nexIoH with the widow, Administered on the
Estate of said Eli S. Shorter in Georcia.
That said James c. Watson departed
this life sometime early in the year 1912.
ana as Complalnants have been informed
made and executed a last Will and Testa
ment, and left three Children as heirs or
devisecs, ne meIy, Thomas w. Watson.
John ii. Watson and Mary Walker. wife
OF Benjamin w. Walker, that said Eli s
Shorter held title papers for s. W. and S. e.
quarters OF Sec. o, Township 5, Range 4
east, IN Chlckasaw county, out CompFs find
no memorandum or writing showing anv
interest in said James G.. Watson. nor do
they believe said Watson had anv interes,
whatever therein, but CompPs mention said
two quarters. in ordar that Justice nav be
done, if 1t should appear that said Watson is
interested IN them.
That said Eli S Shorter, in his life time
held title papers for thirty quarter Sections.
which belonged equally to said Shorter,
Benjamin L. Tarver and James III Shorter.
Complainants. But CompPs find no mem.
orandIm or writing amongst the papers Of
said Eli S. Shorter, which show anv inter-
est in said James G. Watson, nor do compl's
believe he was entitled TO or had anv inter
est in the same, out set out the same. that
Justice may be done. if it should hereafter
appear tina: sald Watson had any interest
therein.
That said Benjamin p. Tarver departed
ahis life sometime in the year 1910, making
I WILL by which will he bequeathed all his
interest, OF, n and to the lands. before and
hereinafter described, to three complainan,s
vlz:-Wllliam Tarver. Elijah w. Tarver
and James VI. Tarver-That is to saw. to
Eigah w Tarver one half to James NJ
TarYer each ono ao,,l - - .r -