The Butler weekly times., 1897-01-07
Order of Publication.
STATE OF MISSOURI o..
County of Bates,


In the Circuit Court of Bates County, Missouri,
In vacation December llth, 1896, Julia
Crum and James II Crum, plaintiffs, VS.. Jo-
seph Jones, administrator of Charles Lang
don, deceased, Elizabeth PtchfOrd, Martha
Rucker, Rachel Gardener, John Seaton, Jesse
Seaton, Gordon Seaton, John Pratt, Henry
Piatt, Emma Wright, Francis Piatt, John
Langdon, Samuel Langdon, Anna Buchen,
Samuel Eads, Mollie Down and Abner Eads,
defendants.
Now at this day come the plaintiffs herein by
their attorneys, Graves 4 Clark, before the un-
dersigned clerk of the circuit court of Bates
county, Missouri in vacation, and file their
petition and affidavit, alleging among other
things, that defendants Joseph Jones, admins
traitor of Charles LangdOn, deceased, Elizabeth
Pitchford, Martha Rucker, Rachel Gardener,
John Seaton, Jesse SeatOn, Gordon Seaton,
John Piatt, Henry Piatt, Emma Wright, Fran
els Piatt, John Langdon, Samuel Langdon,
Anna Buchen, Samuel Eads, Molle Down and
Abner Eads are not residents of the state of
Missouri: Whereupon it is ordered by the clerk
in vacation that said defendants be notified by
publication that plaintiffs have commenced a
suit against them in this court by petition ana
AFFIDAVIT, the general nature and object or which
is to have the court find and determine the re-
spective interests of the plaintiffs and DEFEND
ants, in and to the following lands in Bates
county, Missouri, to-wit The south half of lot
one ID of the northwest quarter, containing
forty acres: the south end of the west half OF the
north half of lot one ID of the northwest quar-
ter, containing four acres: the east half of the
north half of lot one Cd of the northwest quar-
ter, containing twenty acres: the west side OF
the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter.
containing thirty acres; and seven a. acres on
of the south side of the west three-fourthS OF
the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter,
all in section nineteen 40, in township thirty
nine (S0 of range thirty (30), Bates county, Mis-
souri, And further to have the court order ana
decree sale and partition OF the lands aforesaid
| or of the proceeds of said lands after the sale
and for all other and proper relief, and that
| unless the said defendants be and appear al
this court at the next term thereof, to be begun
| and holden at the court house in the city o1
Butler in said county, on the 9th day OF Fen
ruary, 1881 next, and on or before the third day
| of said term if the term shall so long continue
| and if not then on or before the last day of SAID
| term, answer or plead to the petition In saio
| cause the same will be taken as confessed anc
| Judgment will be rendered accordingly.
| And be ii further ordered that copy hereo
| be published. according to law, in the BurLEl
| WEEKLY TIMES, n weekly newspaper printed
| and published in Bates county. Mo. for foul
| weeks successfully, the last insertion to be a
least fifteen days before the first day OF the mex
| term of the circuit court.
| STEWART ATCHESON, Circuit Clerk
| A true copy of the record. Witness my hant
| and the seal of the circuit court o
| IsEAl1 Bates county. this llth day of Decem
| ber 1S96. STEW ART ATCHESoN,
5-tt Circuit Clerk