The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-09-23
LEGAL ADVT'S.
NOTICE.
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$3.50 AKA
VS.. In the Court of
Mary Bear, Lydia McClain, CommonPleas of
wife of Silas McClain. DAN Ashland Co., o
iel Bear, Elizabeth Bear, ia.
cob Bear and James Bear, Civil Action.
Defendants.
CAID Defendants are hereby notified, that
y on the 10th day of August, A.. D., 1857,
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 (tben In full life) en-
tered into a contract in writing for Sale and
purchase of the following ReaIEstate. situated
in Vermillion township. Ashland county, Ohio;
being the North East quarter of section TWEEN
ty-three (23.) in township twenty-one OLD
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 further
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 first day of April, 1857,
all said installments to be paid in bankable
Ohio Taper. -
Petition. further sets forth that all of said
instruments were paid except the last install
nlent which was rendered to the Agent of De-
PENDANTS. and a deed demanded which was re-
fused, and thatthe Plaintiff has performed all
that he was required, and .covsnanted to do in
said contract, but that said Defendants have
not complied with the TERMS of the contraet,
but have broken the same. 81
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 J~ackman, which was O 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 in 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.
The prayer of said Petition is that Plaintiff
recover a Judgment against the said Defen-
dants for said sum of one hundred and fifty
dollars with interest.
And that Plaintiff recover a Judgment
against the said Defendants for a specific per-
formance of said contract, that they be COM
PEELED to make said Plaintiff a deed in fee
simple for said Real Estate, and in default
thereof, that the said Judgment will stand and
operate as q deed for said Real Estate.
Defendants are further notified that unless
they answer said Petition on or before the first
day of the next term of said Court, to be held
on the 2Sth day of September next, said Pc.
tition will be taken as true, and Judgment
rendered accordingly
s. R. BONEwITZ,
Atty for Plaintiff.
Aug. 10Th, 1857. evil