Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1853-04-07
IN cHANCERY.
Court Of Common Pleas of Gallia county,
Ohio. William Il. Langley vs.. Will
lam s. Summers, ct. al.

Ohio. William Il. Langley vs.. Will
lam s. Summers, ct. al.
A UGUSTUS MERRITT, of the city
n Of Louisville, in the State of Ken
tucky, and Rufus Ford, of the city of st.
Louis, ir the State Of Missouri. are here
BY notified that on the 9Th day of April,
1858, William ii. Langley, of the Town
Of GalIipolis, in the county of Galliu, and
State of Ohio, filed in the Court of Com
mon Pleas of said county of Gallia, and
State of Ohio, Bill in Chancery against
William s. Summers and Mary Summers
his. wife, and the said Augustus Merritt
and Rufus Ford, the object and prayer of
which bill is, to foreclose mortgage exc
cuted and delivered by the said William
8. Summers and Mary Summers his wife,
to. the said William H. Langley, on or
about the 5th day of August, A. ID. 1851,
upon certain town or city lots in the town
of Gallipolis, in said county of Gallia and
State of Ohio, and known and numbered
on the recorded plat of said town as lots
$50 and e53, to secure the payment of
the sum of FIVE hundred dollars with in
teres., to the said William ii. Langley,
according to the tenor and effect of his
two certain promissory notes under seal,
therein mentioned and described; and also
to foreclose certain other mortgage af-
terwards executed and delivered by the
said William S. Summers to the said Au-
gustus Merritt, on or about the third day
of December. 1851, upon said two town
OF city lots together with four other town
or city lots in said town of Gallipolis, to
secure the payment of the sum of three
thousand dollars in the manner and accor-
ding to the tenor and effect of certain
promissory notes therein mentioned and
described; said bill representing and
charging among other things the making
of said notes and mortgages as aforesaid
that the said sum of five hundred dollars
with the interest thereon is wholly due
and unpaid By The said William S. Sum-
mers to the said complainant; that said
complainant is inf rmed and believes that
the said Augustus Merritt has assigned
notes secured BY his said mortgage and
therein mentioned, to the said Rufus
Ford; thst he is wholly ignorant of the
amount that is now due, il any, to the
said Augustus Merritt upon his said notes
and mortgage, or to the said Rufus Ford
as assignee as aforesaid; and praying
among other things that the writ of SUBJ
pena may issue against the said William
s. Summers and Mary Summers his wife,
Augustus Merritt aud Rufus Ford, or that
they be otherwise notified of the pendency
of this sui. according TO law, that they
may be compe led to answer all and singu-
lar the premises; that the said Augustus
Merritt and Rufus Ford may answer and
show what amount is due 10 them, or Ell
ther of them, if any, upon said notes in
said mortgage described; that an account
may be taken of what is due the complain
ant for his principal and interest upon his
said note and mortgage; and also of what
may be due to the said augustus Merritt
and Rufus Ford, OK either of them, if any,
for principal and interest upon said notes
and mortgage made to the said Augustus
Merritt as aforesaid, that said premises.
to-wit: town or city lots Nos. $50 and
253 situate in said town of GalIipoiis, and
mortgaeed to complainant as aforesaid,
may be sold, and the proceeds thereof, or
so much thereof as may be necessary for
that purpose, may be applied first to the
satisfaction of what may be found due the
complainant for his said principal and in
terest, and the residue thereof be dis;rib-
uted and applied to the satisfa ction of what
may be found due for principal and inter-
est to the said several other parties in
this suit according to equity; and the said
Augustus Merritt and Rufus Ford are fur
ther notified that unless they appear and
plead. answer or demur to the said bill,
within sixty days after the next term of
said Court, the said William H. Langley
at the term next after the expiration of
said eixty days, will apply to said Court to
take the matters of the bill as confessed,
and to decree thereon accordingly.
L. PERRY,
Sol. for Comp't.