Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-01-06
Notice.

MADISON DeCamp and Hampton Deeamp of
lV the state of Iowa, and John Newton DeCamp
Of the state Of Indiana, and Martha Bird and
James Bird OF the state of Pennsylvania, Will
take notice, that Fireman H. DeCamp and John
Martin, administrators of the estate Of Runion
DeCamp, deceased, of Meigs county, In the
state Of Ohio, did, on the fourteenth day of No.
vcmber, 1854, fle their petition in the Court OF
Common Pleas within and for the county of Meigs
in said state of Ohio, against the said Madison
DcCamp, Hampton DeCamp, John Newton De-
Camp, Martha Bird and James Bird, who are
impleaded with Josophus G. DeCamp, Theron
DoCamp and Ann DeCamp, defendants, setting
forth that Runion DeCamp, late of the county OF
Deleware, Indiann, having recently fallen heir at
law to one-seventh part Of the estate of Cephas
DeCamp, deceased late of Meigs county afore-
said, and that said Runion DeCamp, at the time
Of falling heir to said estate was then and for
long time before mentally unfit and wholly una
Bile to transact any kind of business, and had no
adequate appreciation Of the value of property
or money, and that the defendant, Josephus q.
DeCamp, having got control Of the said Runion
DeCamp on or about the eleventh day of Novem-
bcr, 1868 and well knowing the weak and feeble
condition of the said Runion DeCamp's mind,
and then and there designing unfairly with fraud
and imposition to circumrent and deiraud the
said Runion, did, on or about said llth day OF
November, by fraud and imposition, induce the
said Runion to relinQuish and quit claim by deed
duly executed and deliveIed, all his interest and
claim in and to said undivided seventh part of
the estate both real and personal, of said Oephas
DeCamp that said estate Of Cephas DcCamp was
worth about forty .fve thousand dollars, and that
said one seventh being worth between six and
seven thousand dollars, and that said Josephus
@. DeCamp, well knowing the mental capacity,
and the incompetency Of the said Runion De-
Camp to transact business, and that he was utter
ily unable to Judge Of the value ofsnid undivided
seventh of said estate, and contriving and intend
ing to cheat and defraud said Ruhion DeCamp
unfairly, unjustly, and fraudulently indnccd the
said Runion DeCamp to sell and convey as afore-
said, oil of his, Runion's, interest and right in
and to said undivided seventh part of said estate
to him, the said Josephus c. DeCamp, for the
inadequate and improvident consideration Of
three thousand dollars, to be paid by him, the
said Josephus C. DeCamp, for which he gave his
several promissory notes, and that the said jose
phus c. DeCamp, at the time Of making said
fraudulent purchase of the said Runiou, well
knew the value of said undivided seventh part, of
said estate, and that the said Runion DeCamp
has since died, leaving the plaintiff, Fireman II.
DeCamp, and Joscphus G. DeCamp, Madison De-
Camp, John Newton DeCamp, Hampton DeCamp,
Theron DeCamp, Anu DeCamp, and Martha Bird,
wife of james Bird, heirs at law of him, the said
Runion, and pray that an injunction may be
granted by the Court, injoining the said jose
plus C. DcCamp from receiving or interfering
with said one-seventh part of the effects, or any
part thereof, of the effects of said reA estate of
said Cephas DcCamp, or of the proceeds Of one
seventh part of the personal property or any
amount belonging to the estate OF said Cephas
DeCamp, and that receiver be appointed to take
control of the money and effects accrung fIom
said seventh part of tho sale of said real estate,
and that OH the final hearing of said cause that
said conveyance so as aforesaid fraudulently OBJ
tanned may be pronounced null and void, and
wholly set aside, and that the injunction so as
aforesaid prayed for may be made perpetual, ex-
cepting his, the said Joscphus c. DcCamps dis
tributive share of the estate of said Runion De-
Camp, and that the notes, 50 aforesaid given
to said Runion DeCamp by said Jusephus De-
Camp, and in the hands Of John Newton De-
Camp and Ann DeCamp, may be ordered to be
given up, cancelled and wholly annullcd, and that
said Madison DeCamp, Hampton DeCamp, John
Newton DoCamp, Martha Bird and james Bird,
are notified that they are required to appear and
answer said petition on or before the thiia Satur
day after he 9th dby Of February next.
FIREMAN ii. DECAMf and
JOHN MARTIN,
Administrators of Eunion DeCamp, doc'd.
BY their Attorney, MARTIN HAYS.
December 29h, lSG4.-[ 52-6t