Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-05-04

MARY CALD WELL and james T. Cald-
vi well, her husband, who reside at Salem,
Fulton county, Arkansas; Maria Kinney and
William g. 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 T. 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, 1861, 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, con-
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
s, township z, range 5, in the district of lands
subject to sale at Steubenville, Ohio, in all
containing SO acres, more or less, which in
cluoes a tract originally conveyed by George
Lamp to Israel Orrison, containing 2S acres,
more or less, all of which is more specifically
described in said petition; and that the said
Israel Orrison, being so thereof seized and
possessed, on the day and year aforesaid,
entered into a written contract with said John
Orrson, 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 to and with the said Israel
Orrison that, in consideration of the convey,
ance of said real estate, in the event that he,
the said 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
tere 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 % acres, more
or less; and to the other living children and
grand children of the said Israel and Maria
Orrisou 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 a deceased child,
in equal proportions, a share equal to the share
of 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-acrc 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 grand children
of the said Israel and Maria Orrison be de-
creed to quit claim to the plaintiff any interest
they have or claim 10 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 above named defendants
are required to answer, all and singular, the
allegations of the said petition by the 2Oth
day of May, 1882; that in default Of said an,
swers, said petition will be taken as true and
confessed. AMOS ORRlSON.
BY his attorneys. P. Tallman & Son,
l46.7t Emerson i Kennon.