White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1868-09-17
Notice

rs hereby given, that on the s5.h day Of
l. August, A. d. 1865. Adam Bremen, plain
tif, filed his petition ia the District Court with
| in and for the County of Doniphan, and State of
Kansas, against John W. Forman, James F.
Forman, William Sublett, John A. Van Arsdale,
bartholomew O'Driscol, Asaph Allen, Harris
S:ratton, Robert Riddle. E. w. S,ratton, and
Reuben Middleton, defendants, and alledging
that said defendants were partners in and menu
hers of an association organized for the laying
out and building town on certain terms and
conditions set forth in certain articles of asso-
citation executed by them, copy OF which ar
ticles are attached to and made part of plain
tif 8 said petition, and that certain other per-
sons beca me members of said association, and
that all Of the members of said association ex-
cept the above named defendants sold their
interests in ard Withdrew from such associs-
ton; that for the purpose OF carrying out the
objects of said association, said association
purchased the east half OF section five, and the
" est half of section four, in township four, Of
| range No. twenty-one in Doniphan County,
Kansas, and the said lands we're laid Oh in
lots and blocks, "a an addition t, the town of
| Doniphan; that the said association became
embarrassed ard largely indebted in carrying
out the objects os said association. and that
certain of said members of said association
refused to contribute their proper share Of the
expenses Of said association; that certain men,
bers of said association, beng duly authorized
for that purpose, mortgaged said lands afOre-
said to George Young, of st. Joseph, Missou-
ri, for $3.50 90, fer the purpose of raising
| noneyto pay debts due from said association
20 various persons; that afterwards said asso-
citation failed to pay off and satisfy said mort
gage, and the same was foreclosed, and the
lands sold, and the said Adam Bremen becams
the purchaser thereof, at the instance of and
at the request OF the members of said associa-
ton, ard there being other judgments that
were liens on said premises, which he paid OF
and discharged at the instance OF said associe-
ton, am uniting in the aggregate to about
$40 900, and that the title to said premises
was in dispute and in litigation, and at the in
stance of and at the request Of the members
Of the said association, h paid out for it, in
costs, expenses. and attorneys fees, S3,gO0;
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 ssid mortgage to the said George
Young, and at the time Of the purchase
ofsaid premises by this plaintiff, the said
Robert Riddle, Reuben Middleton, Harris
Stratton, Asaph Allen and Z. w. STATION
had no title OF record in or TO said pre-
mises and this plaintiff did not kno" 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; bat this plaintiff GAYS they have
no interest in or to the same, or any part there
of, ard that he il in the peaceable possession
of the same, and has made lasting and valua-
BILE Improvements on the same, and plaintiff
says that he hes paid out in satisfaction of said
judgments, liens, and expenses. sixteen thou:
sand dollars. and that thesjust share Of the said
Robert Riddle, Reuben Middleton, Asapb AL
len and Harris Stratton, due this plaintiff, Is
seventeen hundred dollars, with interest since
April LIST, 1861; and the said plaintiff asks
that the said Robert Riddle, Reuben Middle
ton, Asaph Allen and Harris Strattou may DO
compelled and required 10 come inc Courf3
and pay to this plaintiff their share of money
which he has paid out on account of said asso--
citation, in q short day to be fixed by the Court,
or that in default thereof, each OF said defen-
dants, and all other of said defendants, may
be. perpetuslly enjoined from setting up or
claiming any title to or interest in said premi-
ses, and for all other proper relief; and said
defendants, Reuben Middleton, Asaph Allen,
Harris Strstton, John A. Van Arsdale, James
r. ForrsaR, and William Sublett, who are
non-resioents of the State of Kansas, are no.
tilted that they are required to appear and an-
sver said petition on or before the fourth day
of November, :. D. 1868,
ADAM BRENNER.
By OTIs & CLICK, bis Attorneys.
September 3, lS6S-Iw.