The Opelousas courier., 1856-02-02
HsOHATHON.
District Court Parish Of St. Landry

District Court" Parrish Of St. Landry,
In the name Of the State Of Louiyiun0,
10 riom 1t may concern. Greeting.
II NOW YE, THAT JouN JOSEPH Nor
- GAN, Of the Parish Of st. Landry, has
applied to our District Court for a Monition
in conformity with the act of the Legislature
entitled IAN Act for the further assurance Of
titles to purchasers at judicial sales ap-
proved March 10th 1884, to make known
That at the sale at public auction of the Es-
tate Of John King Pickett, late of the Parish
of st. Landry, deceased, made at the last pla-
ce of residence of deceased, on the Atchafa
laya, in this said Parish, on the 22nd day of
December 1853, by Sebastian Allis IL
cenced Auctioneer, under an order from our
District Court James Benjamin Davis of the
Parish of St. Landry became the purchaser
of the following described property, to wit:
Eighty acres and % hundredths Of land IT,
ing and being situated in this Parish, the
same lately purchased by deceased from the
Estate of John Davis, decd said land being
adjudcated to said James B. Davis for the
sum of five dollars and eight 4 half cents
per acre, amounting to four hundred and six
ty-fve dollars and eighty five cents, ten per
cent of which sum to be paid cash, and tho
balance in one, two aud three years, with
good and sufficient personal security to the
satisfaction of the Administrator, and mort
gage on the property until final payment of
principal and interest and all sums not paid
at maturity to bear eight per cent interest I'M
til final payment.
Petitioner further represents, that ut sale
at public auction of the Estate of John Davis
late of the Parish of St. Landry, deceased,
on the West bank of the Atchafalaya river,
at the mouth of Bayou Rouge, his last place
of residence, made by George Ricks Admin
istrator, on the 31st day of May 1853, pur-
suant to an order from our District Court, the
said John X. Pickett became the purchaser
of the said tract of land, for the sum of two
hundred and four dollars, on the following
terms to wit: on a credit of one and two years
from the day Of sale, with FIVE per cent cash,
with mortgage and personal security to secure
payment at maturity, said land being dcs-
cribed in proces-verbal Of said Administrator
as Eighty acres of land back Of John X
Pickett; but more fully described in the title
from said Administrator to said Pickett, be-
fore John Joseph Morgan, Notary Public
for the Parish Of St. Landry, dated June 1ss
1853, and supplemental act dated June 3rrl
1853, as "A certain tract of land lying in
the Parish Of St. Landry, and being the North
West Quarter of the South East Quarter and
the North East Quarter Of the South West
Quarter, all in Section seven Township four
South of Range seven East, in the South
Western District of Louisiana, aud contain
Irh& Y bur be
Petitioner represents that he has become the
purchaser of said tract of land from the said
James b eDaVis, by act before Yves D'Avy,
Recorder of this Parish, dated January Bird
1856, and that the terms Of said adjudication
have been complied with BY tie respective
purchasers
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given to
all persons who can set up any right, title or
claim IN and to the property above described,
in consequence Of informality in the orders,
DEGREES Or judgments Of the Court under
WHICH the above named sales were made or
any irregularity or illegality in the appraise-
ments or advertisements, in time Or manner
Of sales or for any other defect whatsoever,
to show cause within thirty days, from the
day this monition is first inserted in the pub
lie papers, why the sales so made to James
Benjamin Davis and John K Pickett, should
not be confirmed and homologated in accor-
dance with the intention and signihcation Of
said act.
- IN testimony whereof have
Id hereunto set my hand and atix-
ed the Seal of said Court, this
4th day of January, 1856.
Is. LASTRAPEs, CIerk.
Opelousas, January Eth 1856.