Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-04-06
Legal Notice.

MARY CALD WELL and james T. Cald-
Nl we'll, her husband, who reside at Salem,
Fulton county, Arkansas Maria Kinney and
William &. Kinney, her husband. who reside
at Havana, Montgomery county, Kansas;
Hannah j. Davis and John W. Davis, her
husband, who reside at Linden P. O., Guthrie
county, Iowa; Theudas Kinney, who resides
at Panora, Guthrie county, Iowa; Alzira Kin
ney and Leonard Kinney, her husband, who
reside at Perry P. o, Dallas county, Iowa,
and William i. Frost, whose place of resi-
dencs is unknown, will take notice that, Amos
Orrison has filed his petition in the Court of
Common Pleas in and for the county of Bel
mont and State of Ohio, on the 18th day Of
March, 1882, charging, among other things,
that Israel Orrison prior to the Goth day of
February, 1851, then being in full life, was
seized Of an estate of inheritance in fee simple
in and to the following described real estate,
situate in the county and state aforesaid, cons
sisting originally Of three several tracts or
parcels of land: Being the land on which John
Orrison, late of said county, last resided, and
being part of the northeast quarter of section
8, township z, range 8, in the district of lands
subject to sale at Steubenville, Ohio, in all
containing So acres, more or less, which in
cludes tract originally conveyed by George
Lamp to Israel Orrison, containing % acres,
more or less, all of which is more specifically
described in said petition; and that the said
Israel Orrison, being 30 thereof seized and
possessed, on the day and year aforesaid,
entered into written contract with said John
Orrison, then in full life, whereby he, the
said Israel, agreed to convey all of the real
estate above described to the said John Orri-
son, and the said John Orrison having then
been married many years, and not having any
children, agreed 10 and with the said Israel
| Orrison that, in consideration of the convey
ance of said real estate in the event that he,
| the lid John, had no children he would con>
vey the seid real estate to the heirs Of the
said Israel Orrison, subject to the dover in
terest of the wife of the said John, if she sur
vived him, in the proportions, to-wit: To the
plaintiff that part of the land conveyed by the
said Israel to the said John, known as the
George Lamp tract, containing 2S acres, more
or less; and to the other living children and
grand children of the said Israel and Maria
Orrison the residue of the land so conveyed
by the said Israel to the said John; to the
| living children of the said Israel an equal
share, and to the children of deceased child,
in equal proportions, share equal to the share
of a living child and in the event that the
said real estate had not been conveyed at the
death of the said John, and the real estate be
in such condition that cannot be so conveyed,
| said contract should be construed as debt
against the estate of the said John Orrison,
and AYERS the 28-acre tract to be Of the value
of 81, 500, and prays the court to decree to
the plaintiff the said % acre tract, and that
the other heirs, children and grandchildren
of the said Israel and Maria Orrison be de-
creed to quit claim to the plaintiff any interest
they have or claim TO have under the will Of
said John Orrison, deceased; or that the court
decree that the executrix of John Orrison,
deceased, in lieu thereof, pay to the plaintiff
out of the estate of the said John Orrison,
deceased, the sum Of 81 800, and for Other
proper relief. The abeve named defendants
are required to answer, all and singular, thu
allegations of the said petition by the 20ti
) day of May. 1882; that in default Of said an
swers, said petition will be taken as true ant
confessed. AMOS ORRlSON.
By his attorneys, P. Tallman & Son,
IA CIT Emerson & Kennon.