Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-03-30
NOTICE.

MADISON DeCamp and Hampton DeCamp of
Wl the state Of Iowa, and John Newton DeCamp
of the state Of Indiana, and Martha Bold and
James Bold Of the state of Pennsylvania, will
take notice, that Fireman H. DeCamp and John
Martin who was duly appointed the administra-
tors of the estate of Runion DeCamp, deceased,
did, on the fourteenth day of November, 1854,
file their petition in the Court of Common Pleas
within and for the county of Meigs in said state
Of Ohio, against the said Madison DeCamp,
Hampton DeCamp, John Newton DeCamp, Mar
tha Bold and James Bold, who are impleaded
with Josephus G. DeCamp, Theron DeCamp and
Ann DeCamp, defendants, setting forth that Run
Mon DeCamp, late Of the county of Deleware, In
diana, have recently fallen heir at law To one
seventh part of the estate of Cephas DeCamp,
deceased, late of Meigs county aforesaid, and
that said Runion DsCamp, at tho time Of falling
heir to said estate was then and for long time
before mentally unfit and wholly unable to trans
act any kind of business, and had no adequate
appreciation of the value of property or money,
and that the defendant, Josephus G. DeCamp,
having got control of the said Runion DeCamp
on or about the eleventh day of November, 1868,
and we'll knowing the weak and feeble condition
of the said Runion DeCamp's mind, and then
and there designing unfairly with fraud and i'm
position to circumyent and defraud the said Run
nion, did, on or about said 18th day Of Novem-
Der, by fraud and imposition, induce the said
Runion to relinquish and quit claim by deed
duly executed and delivered, all his interest and
claim in and to said undivided seventh part Of
the estate, both real and PERSONAL of said Cephas
DeCamp; that said estate of Cephas DcCamp was
worth about forty five thousand dollars, and that
said one-seventh being worth between six and
seven thousand dollars, and that said Josephus
G. Decamp, we'll knowing the mental capacity,
and the incompetency Of the said Runion De-
Camp to transact business; and that he was utter
ly unable to judge of the value of said undivided
seventh of said estate, and contrving and intend
ing to cheat and defraud said Runion DeCamp
unfairly, unjustly, and fraudulently induced the
said Runion DeCamp to sell and convey as afore-
said all 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 G. DeCamp, for which he gave his
several promssory notes, and that the said jose
phus G. DcCamp, at the time of making said
fraudulent purchase of the said Runion, well
know the value of said undivided seventh part Of
said estate, and that the said Runion DeCamp
has since died, leaving the plaintiffs, fireman H.
DeCamp, and Josephus c. DeCamp, Madison De-
Camp, John Newton DeCamp, Hampton DeCamp,
Theron DeCamp, Ann DeCanp and Martha Bold,
wife Of James Bold, heirs at law of him, the said
Runion, and pray that on injunction may be
granted by the Court, injoining the said jose
phus c. DeCamp from receiving or interfering
with said one-seventh part of the effects, or any
part thereof, Of the effects of said real estate of
said Cephas DeCamp, 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 accruing from
said seventh part of the sale Of said real estate,
and that on the final hearing of said cause that
said conveyance so us aforesaid fraudulently OBJ
taincd may be pronounced null and void, and
wholly set aside, and that the injunction 80 as
aforesaid prayed for may bo made perpetual, ex-
cepting his, the said Josephus 9. DeCamp's dis
tributive share of the estate of said Runion De-
Camp, and that the notes, SO as aforesaid given
10 said Runion DeCnmp by said Josephus 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 DeCamp, Martha Bold and james Bold,
are notified that they are required to appear and
answer said petition on or before the third Satur
day after the 4th day of May, A. D. 1865.
FIREMAN H. DECAMP and
JOHN MARTIN,
Administrators of Runion DeCamp, decd.
By their Attorney, MARTIN HAYS.
March 20, lS65,-Tl2-6t, ~. q