The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-01-06
NOTICE

James Levi Mcbride, Ann Jane Nc
Bride and James Pollock, administrator of
James Mcbride, deceased, of the county of
Washington and state of Pennsylvania, will
take notice that Francis Mcbride, of the
county of Ashland and state of Ohio, did,
on the Sd day of November, A. D. 1868,
file his petition in the Court of Common
Pleas, within and for the said county of
Ashland and State OF Chic, against the said
James Levi Mcbride Ann Jane Mcbride and
James Pollock, as administrator of James
Mcbride, deceased, defendants; setting forth
that the said James Mcbride, on the 22nd
day of October, 4. D. 1860, was seized in
fee simple of the one undivided eighth part
of the following tract of land, to-wit sit
uate in the county of Ashland and state of
Ohio, and being the west half of section nine
in township twenty-three (23) and range
sixteen (16) containing three hundred and
twenty acres more or less and did then en-
ter into a verbal agreement with the said
Francis Mcbride, whereby the said James
Mcbride did agree to sell to theS "a Fran
cis bride the said one undiT eighth
par. - said premises, for the sum of eight
hundred dollars, payable as follows: fifty
dollars cash in ham and the note of the
Plaintiff to the said James Mcbride for
seven hundred and fifty dollars, with inter-
est from date, and payable one day after
date the said Plaintiff to have all the time
he wanted to pay said note and when the said
consideration was paid, the said James
Mcbride was to make and execute a deed
to said plaintiff, for said premises, who was
to have immediate possession thereof. Thai
the said James Mcbride. in pursuance OF
said contract, delivered possession Of said
premises to the said plaintiff, who has evel
since remained in possession of the same,
and now in the possession Of the said prem
Uses, that the said plaintiff has made lasting
and valuable Improvements on said premi-
ses with the knowledge and assent of said
James Mcbride that on the 22d day OF
October, 1860 the said plaintiff, in pursuance
of said contract, paid said fifty dollars and
gave his promissory mole, for the sum Of
seven hundred and fifty dollars to the said
James Mcbride, for the balance of said pur-
chase money; that on the LIST day of Oc- |
tober, A. D. 1864, the said plaintiff paid
the said James Mcbride, on said note, the
sum of one hundIe ! dollars, which the said
James Mcbride then credited on said note
that the sum of $685. 70 was due IN said
note at the commencement of this suit
which sum Plaintiff brings into Court sub
ject to its order; that the said James Nc
Bride died on or about the 18th day of Oc-
tober a. D. 1865, in the county of Allegha-
ny and State of ennsylvania, without having /
madeth said PLAINTIFF deed for said preml-
SIS that 1.-THE said James Mcbride died intestate
leaving the said James Levi Mcbride, a
minor, his only heir at law, and the said
Ann Jane Mcbride his widow; that the said
James Pollock is the duly appointed ad-
ministrator of the said James Mcbride de
ceased; that the said Plaintiff has fully COM
piled with the terms of said contract on hi
part that the said defendants have failed
and neglected to make and execute the said
deed, although requested that at the time
said contract was entered into Plaintiff was
the owner Of said lands, except the said one
eighth, then owned by the said James Mel
Bride; that said 5000 90 was to be the entire
consideration for said land, and upon the
payment ofthe same, the deed o rsaid prem
Uses was to be executed by the said james
McBride and the said Ann Jane Mcbride.
The said Plaintiff prays that, on the final
of this cause, it may be ordered and
decreed, that said defendants execute to
said Plaintiff a deed for said premises, and,
in case of their failure to do so, that thede-
cree of said Court may operate and have
the effect of a conveyance of said premises
to said Plaintiff; and for other proper relief
in the premises; and the said James Levi
Mcbride Ann Jane Mcbride and James
are notified that they are required
to appear and answer said petition on or be-
fore the Sd Saturday after the 18th day of
January A. D. 1869.
FRANCIS MCBRIDE.
By McCombs & Curtis, his Att'y's.
80, 1868. 6w21