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.

THESTATE OF OHIO V1NTON COUNTY,
IN COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
William Stevens, ttfl
Vs. Civil action
jSs;:ss Ss:;s: Il: 4s:is 3:is.;,.. aas D'f' Petition
JOSEPH HANEN, of Washington county in
q the State of PSnnSylyanis, viii take notice
lhat William Stevens, of the Cor nty of Yinton,
in tho STATE Of Ohio, did OF. the 18th day of Feb.
urory 1868, tle his Petition in the Clerks effice
Of the aforesaid court, within and for said Vim
ton county, against said Joseph Hanen, William
Bray and George W. Johnston, rs partners trad
ing under the firm, hame OF Hanen, Bray 4
Co., deiendcnts, setting forth among other
things that OIL the 25th day Of December 1862,
defendants were dealers in sheep, that to induce
the plaintiff to buy, defendents represented
their sheep 10 be thorough brod spanish sheep
brought directly from the State of Vermont,
that the grown sheep were worth twenty dol
lars per head, of the very best quality known,
that they would shear from six 10 ten lbs Of
wool annually, thas some Of them, to the know
ledge of said Hanen and Bray, had actually
yeiided the previous spring ten lbs the growth
of single year.
That the plaintiff was ignoront of the quality
of said sheep. and relying wholly upon the rO-
presentations of said lianen and Bray bought
enc hundred head Of said sheep, relying us afore
said upon the representations of deiendents as to
breed, quality, value, age, and condition OF
said sheep, that plaintiff agreed to pay the same
in wool, TO Hanen, Bray Co., for which he
gave his five obligations payable on the first
day OF July in each Of the years 1868, 1864, 1865
1865 aud 1857, for eight-hundred TBS of wool an
unally, that plaintiff should have the livilege Of
n linz gntH q L. i 1
satisfied Herewith.
That plaintiff sold cattle for seventy dollars to
said firm, and that the sane was credited on one
Of said obligations coming due July lst lS63.-
TEat all Of SAID representations of defendents
were false and fraudulent, and made to cheat
and defraud the plaintiff as defendents well
knew, that said sheep were not thorough bred
spanish, nor of the age represented, of no great
eI value than from Two to three dollars per head
that their tieeces will not be more than from one
aud one half to four lbs per head, that many of
them were so old as to be worthless sc. that
plaintiff req Cested defendenIs to take back said
sheep, and deliver up said obligations.
That said Hanen does not reside in tie State
ofOhio, and said firm has no office or place Of
baisness in said State, chat said obligations are
in said Brays possession. And that the keep
Ing of fsaid sheep il worth one dollar per day
from the 25th day of December 1852.
Which said petition contains Prayer.
That the said firm of Hanen, Bray a Co., and
each of tho members thereof, may be enjoned
and restrained from assigning transferring or IN
any manner d.sposing Of said five obligations,
or either Of them, that they may be compelled
to recind said contract, to delive. up and can
rel said obligations, to take back said sheep, to
refund to the plaintiff the sum of seventy dol
lars paid as aforesaid in cattle, With interest
aud to pay the plaintiff for his trouble and az
ing said sheep, and for such other relief as nay
be according 10 equity.
Said defendents will also take notice that an
injunction has been allowed in said cause.
McCliatick, Smith, WILLIAM STEVENS,
Bratton. attys for Pltf Feb. 96th-63-sw.