Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1862-05-02
IN CHANCERX.
ATE OF VERMONT.

STATE OF HgOST.
~ ORLEANS COUNTY, SIS.
IN CI4NCERK, or Daniel Webster, o.
Trans County i.o Court Charleston, in said
having filed his bill in chancery in the office OF
the clerk of said Court, this 20th day Of April
A. d. 1862, setting forth that James Humphrey
and Laura Humphrey, of Bloomington in said
| County on the Sth day of July, A. D. 1853, duly
executed TO said Daniel Webster a mortgage
deed Of certain land in Bloomington aforesaid,
! described as follows, viz. Being Il part of Lot
No. 1876, being the farm on which said James
Humphrey lived, on said Sth day of July, 1858,
and the same farm decided to said James Hum
phrey by Jonathan Davis, containing one hun
| dred and five acres, be the same more or less.
And further setting forth that the said mort
gage Is conditional for The payment OF a certain
promssory note for three hundred and fifty
| dollars and eleven cents, dated January LIST,
1858, payable to the said Daniel Webster, or or
der, with interest annually, on demand said
note payable in three years from the date of the
same; and also conditioned that said James
Humphrey pay to said petitioner whatever he
may owe said petitioner at any time after the
date Of said mortgage deed.
And further setting forth that on the 9TH day
Of October, A. d. 1853 the said petitioner, at
the instance and request of said James Hum
phrey, bought Of one John Piper Judgment
against said James Humphrey, in favor Of said
Piper, for the sum Of iity-uiut dollars aid thir-
ty-nine cents, and that on the 18Th day Of April
A. d. 1852, said petitioner, at the request of
sad james Humphrey, signed no,c to one
Jarvis Bartlett, as surety for said Humphrey, |
Tor seven dollars and sixteen cents, payable the
then next September, with interest, which said
note the petitioner was obliged 10 aud did pay
with the interest on the same when the same be-
came due. And further setting forth that he
holds notes and other evidences OF indebtedness, |
other than such a are herein before described /
against said Humphrey, amounting in the whole /
to very large sum, to vii the sum OF SsG35.j3, |
with interest accrued upon the same; all of
which notes herein before described and men, |
toned, were given in settlement of indebted |
ness from said james Humphrey to the petition |
prior to the transfer and deed of the aforesaid
premises by the said Humphrey to Jesse Cooper, |
as hereinafter mentioned
Aud further setting forth that on the Sth day .
of December, A. d. 1859, the said Jam Hum
phrey decided said premises to jesse Cooper,
then of lrasburgh, but now of NyaudOttC, IN
the State of Kansas, by deed of warranty but
as the petitioner is informed and believes, with
an agreement between the said James Hum
phrcy and said Cooper, that said Cooper should
re-dced said premises 70 said Humphrey on the
payment of a certain sum of money bv the said
Humphrey to said Cooper, and praying that the
equity Of redemption OF the said James Hum
phrey, Laura Humphrey, and Jesse Cooper, in
the premises, may be fJreclosed, agreedbly to
the act to diminish the expenses of forecosing
mortgages IN equity.
And it appearing that the said James Hum
phrey and Jesse Cooper are gone without the
State, so that the usual process Of subpoena can
not be served upon them according to law, and
hat they have neither Of them had notice of
he filing of said petition in the office of said
clerk.
1t is therefore ordered that the substance of
iaid petition, together with this order, be pub
ished three weeks sncccssively in the ORLEANS
Independent Standard, a newspaper published at
in said Orleans County, the last of
which publications to be at least twenty days
PREVIOUS to the next stated term Of this court, :
which publication shall be deemed a sufficient
lotice to said James Humphrey and Jesse {
cooper to appear and make answer to said petit Z
ion. BY order Of Court, T
N. CUSHMAN, Clerk.
J. L. DICgERNAS, Solicitor. lSw3