M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-03-19
LEGAL NOTICE,
THE STATE OF OHIO vINTON COUNTY,
IN COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Petition.

Aaron Stevens Pltff.
VI Petition
William Bray,
Joseph Hanen andS Deftsl
George W. JohnstoD)
TOSEPH HHANEN, Of Washington county in
O the State of Pennsylvania, will take notice
that Aaron Stevens of the County Of Vinton in
the State Ohio, did on the 10Th day of Febur-
ary 1868, file his petition in the Clerks office
of the Aforesaid Court, within and for said Vim
ton county against said Joseph Hanen, William
Bray and George W. Johnston, rs partner trad
ing under the firm, name ofllanen, Bray g. Co.
DEPENDENTS, setting folth among other things.
That OH the 25th day ofDe ,ember 1862, defen-
dents were dealers in sheep, that to induce the
Plaintiff to buy, deiendents represented their
sheep to be thorough bred Spanish sheep, from
Washington county Pennsy ylyania thatthey were
of the very best quality, that detendents, had
paid twenty dollars per head for some of said
sheep. That said sheep would shear from five
to ten lbs of wool, sc. That plaintiff relying
wholly on the representations OF defendentS
bought eighty head of said sheep, to be ono
year old in spring of 1858, at sum of sl7, 80
per head. That in payment for said eighty
head of sheep, plaintiff paid defendent ono hun
dred and nineteen acres af real estate situated in
Vinton county, described as follows, to. wit:
ter of Section number four, in Township num-
Der nine, of Range number nineteen; the north
east quarter Of the south east quarter of Section
number four, in Township number nine, of
Range number nineteen, and the west quarters,
of the south west quarter, of section number
four, in Township number nine, of Range num-
Der nineteen, eleven head Of cattle at seventy
eight dollars; and five notes signed by plaintiff,
for two hundred and ten lbs of WOOL the first
payaJl on the lst day of July 1868, and the
other four payable on the lst of July, for the
same amounts, in each Of tho years 1864 1865,
1866 and 1857. That the deed for said realty
was executed and delivered to William Bray,
the Cattle al notes delivered to defendcnts,
That said notes were drawn so as to make plain
tiff pay one hundred and five dollars, with the
privilege ofpaying same in wool. That all of
the aforsaid representations of the defendants
Eere false and fraudulent, as defendants we'll
knew, and that they intended to defraud plain
tif. That said sheep were not thorough bred
Spanish sheep az. That said Joseph Hanen,
does not reside in the State of0hio, and that
said deiendents have no office or regular Place
of business therein. That plaintiff has kept
said eighty head Of sheep since the 25th day of
December 1862, that the said keeping is worth
81 90 per day, that said Bray, is still in posses
sion at said obligations. which said petition
contains a Prayer, that said William Bray,
may be eniCiNed AMI restnined from conveying
said real estate, and that the defendents emo
each of them may be eujoincd from assigning
or transferring or in any manner disposcing Of
said obligations or either Of them, that they
may he compelled TO recinl said contract, de-
liver up and csncol said obligations, restore
said cattle or the value thereof with interest, TO
take ba k said sheep or lambs, that defendants
pay said plaintiff for keeping said sheep. taat
delendent Bray may be compelled to reconvey
said real estate to plaintiff, aud for such other
relief as ma be according to equity.
Said defenoent will also take notice that an
injunction has been allowed in said cause.
Smith AARON STEVENS, 4
g. Bratton, att'ys for Pltff. Feb. 26th-63-6w.