The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-07-05
LEGAL.
Eleanor Groat, by Andrew
4. Church. her next
friend, Plaintiff,

Eleanor Groat, by Andrew
! T.. Church. her next In Court OF
friend. Plaintiff. Common Ploas
vs. OF ueauga
Seth NJ Baker, Truman County. Ohio.
! Bill and Nicholas Groat, Civil action.
Defendants.
ITUIIE defendant. Nicholas Gront will
Il take notice that tho plaintiff on tho
4th day of May. 1861, filed in SAID Court n
| petition against him and said other do.
/ tcndnnts, setting forth that said Nicholas
was married to said Eleanor prior 20 April.
lS43 and they are nov husband and wife.
That on tho 9th day of April. 1919, said
Nicholas,as tho agent merely ofsaid Eleanor,
and at her request, purchased of one David
jenkins ~ acres of Iund in lot in Mont
villo Township, in said County. That ut
tho time tho decd was to DO executed for
said land said Eleanor was sick aud unable
to attend to tho business in person, and
she handed over to said Nicholas. as her
agent Of her own separate money and
property, S400 with which to pay for said
land and procure deed thereof to her.
That said Nicholas paid said jenkins said
$780, said EleanOr's separate money and
property, it being tho entire consideration
for said land, and to dofraud said Eleanor
took u deed thereof in his own name, vest
ing tho title in himself. That said Eleanor
tor several years afterwards supposed said
decd was made to Der. and rs soun as she
learned that tho deed was mudo to said
Nicholas, she requested him to execute such
convoyauccs as would vest tho tito in her I;
that hN promised to do so. but postponed
it from time to time. and she has becn una.
bio to induce him to convoy to her said
land. That sni6 Nicholas, apprehonding he
would ho compelled to pay certain debts on
which ho was liable as surety, on tho 9Th
day of May, 1857, and without tho knowl.
edgo OF said Eleanor. conveyed said AZ
acres of land to Seth NJ. Baker; that said
conveyance was without consideration and
void and was made to deiraud said Nicholas
creditors that tho creditors of said Nicholas
have not and do not seek to reach said
land; that said Nicholas has abandoned his
family aud residence in said MUntyille. and
gOuo to parts unknown, and the said Flea.
nor is in possession of said 40 acres OF
land That said defendant, Truman Bill, on
the 9Th dav of June. 1859, recovered in the
Court of Common Pleas of said County, u
judgment against said Baker, upon which
no caused execution to issue and u levy to
be madu by tho Sheriff of said County, on
said ~ acres OF land. and said Sheriff duly
advertised aud sold the same on the 22nd
,luy of April. 1861. to said Truman Bill
that said Bill when he bid on said land had
full knowledge of tho rights of said Eleanor
and that the conveyance to said Bakor was
fraudulent aud void.
Said petition prays that said Bill be re.
strained from disposing of his pretended
title TO said land, and from moIesting OF
disturbing said Eleanor in her pOssr sion
thereof, aud on final hearing be barred OF
all claim to tho samo; that the convey anco
from said Nicholas to said Baker 40 declared
VOID and wholly set aside. and tho tito to
said land dccreed 10 said Eleanor, and for
other relief Said Nichulas Groat is also
notified that no is required to answer said
! petition on or before tho 10Th day OF
August, 1861.
DISSELL & TINKER and
CANFIELD & FRENCH,
Plaintiffs .AH'ys.
| Chardon, Juno l4th, 1861. 506s6