The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-09-30
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NOTICE.
JAMES Reid, Plaintiff, i

NOTICE.. Il
JAMES Reid. Plaintiff, s1fA9 q Il
n Vs.. TtIn the, Court Of
Mary Bear, Lydia McClain, CommonPleas Of
wife of Silas 4cClain, DanI AshlandaCos,O.
iel Bear, Elizabeth Bear, ia
cob Bear md James Bear z OWL Actiohs
Defendants.
GAID Defendants are hereby notified, tfat
on the lQth day Of August, A-5D,1s57
Plaintiff filed in the Court Of Common Pleas,
of Ashland county, Ohio, o Petition setting
forth that on the oath of August, 1853, Plain
tiff and one John Bear fthen in fill lfe) en-.
tered into a contract in writing for Sale and
purchase of the following Real Estate, situated
in Nermillion township, Ashland county, Ohio;
being the North East quarter of section twen-
ty-three (23.) in township twenty-one {21,)
and Range sixteen (l6,) saving and excepting
Thirty acres out of the North West corner of
The said quarter section. which the said Bear
had sold to Daniel Smith. Petition futther
sets forth, that said Plaintiff agreed to pay for
said tract of land the sum of four thousand
and five hundred dollars and all taxes assessed
on said land for school-house purposes in the
following manner, to-wit eighteen hundred
dollars on or before the first day of April, 1854,
eleven hundred dollars on or before the first
day of April, 1855, eleven hundred dollars on.
or before the first day of April, 1856, and FIVE
hundred dollars on the firstday of Apfil, 1885,,
all said installments to be paid in bankable
Ohio Taper. -
Petition further SETS forth that aH of said
i~nstallments We're paid except the last INSTALL
ment which was rendered to the Agent of De
fendants, and a deed demanded which was re-
fused, and that the Plaintiff has performed all
that he was required and coyenanted to do in
said contract. but that said Defendants have
not complied with the terms of the contract,
but have broken the same.
Petition further sets forth that said John
Bear died and left the Defendants his legal
representatives and that said John Bear.in his
life time executed a mortgage on said premises
to one Richard aekman, which was q lien on
said land at the time of the purchase as afore.
said, by the said Plaintiff. Petition further
sets forth that the Plaintiff has sustained dam
ages i'll the non performanee of said contract in
the sum of one hundred dollars, and that he
has been subjected to expenses in about the
sumo of fifty dollars. Eac a4A
The prayer of said Petition is that Plaintiff
recover a judgment against the said Defel-
dants for said sum of one hundred and fifty
dollars with Interest.
3 And that Plaintiff recover a Judgment
against the said Defendants for a speeifie5perd
Torrance OF. said contract, sthatvtheY be COM
PEELED to make said Plaintiff a deed in fec
simple for said Real Estate, and in default
thereof, that the said Judgment viii stand and
operate as a deed for said Real Estate GTsT.
Defendants are farther notified that unless
they answer said Petition on or before the first
day of the next term o f-said Court, to be held
on the 2Sth day of September next, said Pc
tition will be. taken as true, and Judgment
rendered accordingly elf.t3a 4 $50 aaifi
80 s. r. BONEWITZ, -o.a
Atty for Plaintiff. :,
Aug. 18th 1857. s-Ei az lHa evil =