Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-03-23
NOTICE.

N6ADIsON DeCamp and Hampton DeCamp ofl
yl the state of Iowa, and John Newton DeCamp
Of the state Of Indiana, and Martha Bold and
James Bold Of the state of Pennsylvania, VIII
take notice, that Freman H. DeCamp and John
Martin who was duly appointed the administra-
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 De0amp, Mar
tha Bold and James Bold, who ore tmpleaded
with Josephus G. DeCamp, Theron DeCamP ana
Ann DeCamp, defendants, setting forth that run
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 DeCamp, at the 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, Joscphus U. DeCamp,
having got control of the said Runion DeCamp
nn or sbout 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
noaition to circumvent and defraud the said Run
pp;on did on or about said Ilth day OF Novem-
her. by fraud and imposition, induce the said
Runion to qelinquish and quit claim by deeG
duly executed and delivered, all his interest aho
claim in and to said undivided seventh part o.
tho estate both real and personal, OF said Cephas
j, Do(,omn. that said estate of Cephas DeCamp wa
worth about forty five thousand dollars, and thai
said one-seyenth being worth between six anf
seven thousand dollars, and that said Josepnu
C. Decamp well knowing the mental caPaoIty
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 undlvide
seventh of said estate and contriying and lntena
ing to cheat and defraud said hunion DeVa,n
. unfairly, unjustly, and fraudulently induced Tn
said Runion DeCamp to sell and convey as afore
said all of his, Runion's interest and right i
and to said undivided seventh part Of said estat
Z to him, the said Josephus G. DeCamp, tor th
= Inadequate and improvident consideration
J three thousand dollars, to be paid by him, th
o said Joscphus c. DeCamp, for which he gave nj
- several promissory notes, and that the said Jos:
= phus G. DeCamp, at the time OF making sal
: fraudulent purchase OF the saia nuhlon, W. ',
. knew the vaue of said undivided seventh part
Il said estate and that the said Runion DeCan
has since died, leaving the plaintiffs, Fireman
&c DeCump, and Josephus 9. DeCamp, Madison d.
: Camp, John Newton DcCanp, Hampton DeCam
Theron DeCamp, Ann DeGamp and Martha Bul
r. wife of James Bold, heirs at law OF him, the sal
u Runion, and pray that an injunction may
granted by the Court, injoining the said JOS
phus q. DeCamp from receiving or lnterferif
with said oue-scventh part of the effects, or al
Vi part thereof of the effects Of said real estate
said Cephas D,Camp, or of the proceeds OF on
seventh part of the personal property or III
amount belonging to the estate OF saia oepn
DcCamp, and that IL receiver be apPointod 10 Ia
control of the money and effects acciuing iro
x said seventh part OF the sale OF SAID real esta
b. and that on the final hearing Of said cause IN
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