Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-02-02
Notice.

MADISON DeCamp and Hampton Decamp of
N 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 II. 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
yember. 1864 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 De-
| Camp. Martha Bird and James Bird, who are
implicated with Josephus @. DeCamp, Theron
DcCamp and Ann DeCamp, defendants, setting
forth that RuniOn DeCamp, late OF tho county o.
Dclewarc Indiana, having recently fallen heir at
law to one seventh part Of tho estate of Cephas
DeCamp, deceased, late of Mcigs eourty aforo-
said, and that said Runion DoCamp, at the time
of falling heir to said estate was thsn and for q
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 U
DeCamp, having got control OF the said hunion
DeCamp on or about the eleventh day of Novem-
ber. 1868, and well knowing tho weak and feeble
condition of the said Runion DeCamp's mind
and then and there designing unfairly with fraut
and imposition to crcumvent and defraud thu
said Runion, did, on or about said llth day Of
November, by fraud and imposition, induce thu
said Runion to relinquish and quit claim by deco
duly executed and selveied, all his interest ant
claim in and to said undivided seventh part o
the estate, both real and personal, of said Cepha
DeCamp; that said estate Of Cephas DeCamp wa
worth about forty five thousand dollars, and tina
said one-scventh being worth between six ant
seven thousand dollars and that said Josephu
G. DeCamp, well knowing the mental capacity
and the incompetency OF the SAID Runion De
Camp to transact business, and that ho was utter
Ily unable to judge of the value of said undivided
seventh of said estate, and contrving and intend
ing to cheat and defraud said Runion DeCaml
unfairly, unjustly, and fraudulently induced tn
said Runion DeCamp to sell md convey as nfore
said, all of his, Runons, interest and right il
and to said undivided seventh part of said cstat
to him, tho said Joscphus c. DeCamp, for tn
Inadequate and imprOvident consideration o
three thousand dollars, to be paid by him, til
said Joscphus G. DeCamp, for which he gave hi
several promissory notes, and that the said Jose
phus G. DeCamp, at the time of making sal
fraudulent purchase of the said Runlon, wei
knew tho value Of said undivided seventh part 0
said estate, and that the said Runion DeCan
has since died, leaving the plaintiff, Fireman il
DeCamp, and Joscphus G. DcCamp, Madison Dc
Camp, John Newton DeCamp, Hampton DeCamT
Theron DeCamp, Anu DoCamp, and Martha Bird
wife of James Bird heirs at law of him, the sal
Runion, and pray that an injunction may b
granted by the Court, injoining the said Jo<o
phus G. DcCamp from receiving or inte. ferin
with said one seventh part of the efeats, or an
part thereof, of the effects of said real estate
said Ccphas DcCamp, or of the proceeds of ont
seventh part of the personal property or an
amount belonging to the estate OF so:i Cepht
bcCamp, and that receiver be appointed to tax
control of the money and effecta accruing fIol
said seventh part Of the salo ot said real ostat
and that on the ft'al hearing OF said cause thu
said conveyance SO as S.oresaid fraudulently oil
tanned may be pronounced null and void, an
wholly set aside, and that the injunction SO {
0 aforesaid pray1d for may be made perpetual, e1
cepting his, the said Josephus e. DcCamp's di
, tributivd .nare of the estate of said Runion d.
= Camp, and that the notcs, so as aforesaid give
to ,aid Runion DeCamp by said Joscphus D
!. Camp, and in the hands Of John Newton D
y Camp and Ann DeCamp, may be ordered -
e given up, cancelled and wholly annulled Ind III
: said Madison DeCamp, Hampton D'camp, Jol
Newton DeCamp, Martha Bird AID James D.
are notified that they are reur,red to appear al
answer said petition on or before tho third Satu
e day after the 9th dby ii February next.
s. FIREMAN H. DECAMP n
JOHN MARTIN,
ID Admi li:trators of Runion DeCamp, decd.
# by thor Attorney, MARTIN Hays.
!, december Goth, lS64.-[ SGT