Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1847-07-02
The State of Ohio, Carroll county, SIS.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Peter Clinton
Va. In CHANCERY.
Henry Mick, ct. ais \


Dewitt Clinton of St. Louis, Missouri, John Cn-
ton OF Iowa. Joshua Clinton, whose place Of resi-.
denCe is unknown, are hereby notified that Peter
Clinton, on the 10Th day OF May, l847, filed in the
court OF common pleas in and for said Carroll coun.
y, against them and others, his bill in chancery, in
which said bill it is alleged that said Peter Clinton
is the only surviving heir and legal representative
OF Abel Clinton, late OF Co!umbiana county, dCcea-
sed; that said Abel when in lille, about the 25th OF
May, A. D. 1929, made an agreement, in writing
with Henry Mick, for the purchase OF the follow
ing real estate, TO wit: bounded on the north by
lands of John Clinton, on the west by lands OF John
Caskey, on the south 10y lands ol Andrew Meek
on the east by lands OF William Wheeler, being
part oi the southeast quarter OF section twenty
three, township fourteen, OF range five, OF the
lands ordered 10 be sold at Steubenville, Ohio con-
tanning fifty acres, more or less; that said Abel
Clinton departed this life inestate, OIL or about the
year 1929; that al the November term OF the court
Of common pleas for the year 1929, John Clinton
was duly appointed administrator of the estute OF
said Abel Clinton, deceased, and that he accepted
the trust and entered upon the duties OF his office.
The bill further alleges that full payment was made
to said Mick for said premises in accordance with
said gIecment; that on or about The eth Of Feb
Iruary, 1882, said MICK and wife executed and de-
Iivered to said John Clinton, as administrator Of
said Abel Clinton, deceased, deed in fee simple
for said real estate, for the Of the heirs ol said
Abel Clinton; bill further alleges that said John
Clinton, administrator OF said Abel Clinton, decea-
sed, departed this life about the year 1888, leaving
certain heirs who are made defendants to said bill;
and that the widow of said Abel Clinton departed
this life about the year of l840 and that SAID John
Clinton departed this life without having convey
ed said lands 10 said Peter Clinton as the heir and
legal sentative of said Abel Clinton, deceased;
and that said Henry Mick never did convey said
lands to said Abel Clinton in his life time, nor to
your petitioner as the only surviving heir and legal
representative oil said Abel Clinton, deceased; and
that said agreement in writing has been lost or mis-
laid except fragment which is filed and marked
ItA.) The prayer of said bill is that said Dewitt
Clinton, John Clinton and Joshua Clinton and 9TH
ers he made defendants, and that the conveyance
from said Mick and wife 10 said John Clinton as
administrator of said Abel Clinton be decreed void
and oil no effect, and that said Henry Mick be de-
creed to convey said land and premises in fee sim
pie 10 the petitioner Os the heir and legal represen-
tatve of said Abel Clinton, deceased, and for gen.
eral relief; and said DEWITT Clinton, John Clinton,
and Joshua Clinton are further notified that unless
they appear and plead, answer or demur to said
bill within sixty days from the rising OF the next
tenn OF said court, the said petitioner will, at the
next term after the expiration ol said sixty days,
appy 10 said court to take the matters and things
set forth in said bill as true and confessed, and de-
cree thereon accordingly ECkLEY Y DAVIS,
Solicitors Tor Petitioner,
June I8, l847-36-6t. Pr lee So 75.