White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1868-09-03
Notice

rs hereby given, thal on the 25th day Of
Jupe. A. D. 1863, Adam Bremen. plain
'.ff, flied his petition ia the District Court
within aud for the County Ut DoDiphan, anu
State Of Kansas, against John W Forman,
-Jamss F. Furman, William Sublett. John A,
Van Arsdale, Bartholomew O'Driscoii, Asapf.
Allen, Harris Strsttan, Robert Riddle. and
Reuben Middleton, defendants, and alledg'ng
taat said defendants we're partners in and mem
her, of uu association org sniz-d for the laying
out and building a town on certain terms ana
conditions set forth in certain articles OF asso-
citation executed by them, copy OF winch ar
,ticles are attached to and made part OF PLAIN
iii g said petition, AMI that certain other per.
sons became members OF said associ ,toh' ana
that all Of the members OF said ASSOCIATION ex
,cept the shove m ned Defendants sofa 'neir
Interests in md withdre from such sssocia-
ron: that for the purpose o; carrying out the
objects of said association, said association
purchased the east half OF 'ction I'VE, and the
west half of section four. in township four, Of
range No. twenty one. in DUniphan County.
Kansas, aud the said lands we're laid Oh in
lots and block, as an addition t. the town OF
Doniphan; that the said association became
emi,ar assed and largely indebted in carrying
out the objects of said association. and that
certain of said members of said association
refused TO contri butte their proper share Of the
expenses of said association; that certain mem
bers of said association, being duly authorized
for that purpose. mortgaged said lands aiore-
said to George Young, of st. Joseph, Missou-
ri, for S57500D, for the purpose Of raising
money to pay debts due from said association
TO various persons; that afterwards said asso-
citation failed to pay of aud satisfy said mort
gage, and the same was foreclosed, and the
.. ia II ,h. said dam RraDn heca me
the purchaser thereof, at the instance Of and
at the request Of the members of said associa-
ton, and there being other judgments that
were liens on said premises. which he paid Oh
and discharged at the instance of said associa-
ton, an uniting in the aggregate to about
$40 900, and that the title to said premise
was in dispute and in litigation, and at the in
stance of and at the request Of the members
Of the said association, he paid out for it. in
costs, expenses, and attorneys fees, $1,000;
that plaintiff became the purchaser of said pre-
misses, at the instance of the members Of said
association; and that at the time of the exeeu
of the said mortgage TO the said &c rye Young,
and at the time of the purchase of said premi-
sss by this plaintiff, the said Robert Riddle,
Reuben Middleton, Harris StrattoR and Asaph
Allen had no title of record in or to said pre-
misses, and this plaintiff did not know that they
or either of them had or claimed any interest
in or to said lands, and that long after the
purchase of said lands by this plaintiff. they
set up and now claim to have an interest in or
to the same; but this plaintiff savs they have
no interest in or to the same, or any part there
of, and that he is in the peaceable possession
of the same, and has made lasting aud valua.
bic improvements on the same. and plaintiff
says that he has paid out in satisfaction OF said
Judgments, liens, and expenses, sixteen thou