Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1847-10-07
In ChanCcry.
STATE OF VERMONT.
ALVIN N, TOTMAN, Complainant


LEONARD BROOKS and sEwALL osGooD, defend
ants.
NNHEREAs, Calvin N. Totman, complainant in
w the above entitled suit, hs filed in the Office orthe
CLERK Of the Court of ChNncery for the County OF Wind
and state oiVemon, his bill of complaint setting
forth among other things!
Ihat on the first day of May A. D., 1919, one John
Brooks formerly of Wo,d.locki in sud County Of Wind
sOr but now OF Manchester, in the STATE Of New linmp
shire WAS indebted to the Complainant IN the sum of one
hundred and thirty dollars aud the same day gave Ia
the comp lannnt his note for The same dnteu the same
day aud made payable to the Complainant On demand
with interest nnnGny and TO secure the payment OF SAID
note, on the same day gave to the Complainant mort
gnge deed In due form Of law OF the following described
piece Of land, TO wits
"Bcginnng Mt point at sourherly corner of John D.
Powers Jrs. Land, on the road leading nom the Mills
lately known and called by the name ol the "POWcTs
Mills, ind now owned by Solomon Woodward to Dan.
itls Machine shops thence north ninety degrees west on
said Powers west line twenty-five rods ana nine una
half links stake and stones thence north eighty
degrees east eleven rods stake aud stones; thence
north fifteen and halt degrees west, twenty five and
half rods aud twrntythrGe links to the highway first
mentioned thence north seventytwO degrees cast, eight
rods and two Ieei to the bounds first entOned contain
ing one mere and hal of land be the same more or less
being the house and lot lately 'occunied by said John
Brooks, and now occupied by Sewall Osgood."
That the said mortgage deed was subject 10 the cond
tOn that ithe said john his heirs or assigns should
well nd truly pay the Complainant his heirs or assigns
the said SUN Of money specified in said note, accord
ing to the tenor of he same then the said deed be
void otherwise of force. That the said John on or about
the 2d day ofSeptemper, 16i3 decided all his right and
title TO said premises 10 Leonard Brooks of Milford, IN
the County OF lIsborOugh III the State OF New lamp.
shire and that the said Leonard about the first day
OF April 1886, leased said premises 10 Sewa OseOOd, who
took ess0n said premises under said cnse and still
continues in possession, and claims 10 hold the same
gainst the Complainant
Tha: the said note has never been paid or any part
thereof but the Is now due with great arrear of in
tercs thereon and the estate md interest in said
gagged pre- nseS had become absolute In the Complain
ant
That the Complainant had frequently applied 10 the
said Leonard Sewa and requested them to pay sHid
note or give up possession snd premises 10 the Com
panant and pray ing that subpoena may issue and that
the suid Leonard aud Sewa might he decrced pay said
and the cost the Suitby some short day 10 be ap
pointed by the Court OF Chancery or in default thereof
that the said Leonard aud Sewa he forever iOrecOsed
Of and from MI equity orredemption in and to said prem
ses and every pNr thereof and that writ oi possession
may issue therefor and that the Complainant may be
further relieved in the premises according to equity and
good conscience.
And whereas the said John Brooks resides out of this
therefore in pursuance of The provisions OF the Revised
Statutes Chap. "a, Co. Notice IL hereby given To him.
and he is hereby required to appear before the Chancellor
Of the second judicial circuit of the State OF Vermont at
the court house in Woodstock in said county OF Windsor
on the first Tuesday November next being the first day
Of the stated term Of the Court OF Chancery IN snid
County aud make to the bill OF Complnint a0re
sad and abide such ORDER direction and decree therein as
to snd Chancellor shall seem meet. And the Complain
in such bill is directed to cause this order 10 he pub
shed three weeks successvey in the Spirit Of the Age
printed in said Woodstock. the last publication 10 be at
least twenty days before the first Tuesday in November
neat.
Dated at Woodstock in the county of Windsor, the
twenty FIRST day Of September, A. ID. l8i7.
NORMAN WILLIAMS, Clerk in Chdncery.
Tracy & CONVERSE, Solicitors.