Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-01-18
HOW It IS DESCRIBED
The Queer Descriptions Of Land in
South Carolina.
FROM A SYCAMORE TO A STAKE

The South Carolina Way Would be
Laughed at In Iowa-Queer De.
| scrlptiOns Caused by Lack
OF Government Survey.
A description of parcel of land
that meanders from a tree to a rock
and thence to a point where two rocks
! are placed one above the other, would
be. laughed at in the state Of Iowa,
yet Frank Hardy, of Blakesburg, who
has recently returned from trip thru
North and South Carolina, Georgia,
| and several other southern states,
brought into the Courier Office pa
per printed in Hendersonville, N. c.,
| called the French Broad Hustler"
that contains a description OF a piece
OF land that would make loan agent
| in this county have chills. 1t is an adj
vertisement of what the people of
South Carolina call a mortgage sale,
and from it is understood that the
mortgagee is not required to forecloses
his mortgage by a process in court, as
he would in Iowa, but instead, adver-
tises the fact that he will sell it at
| the court house in Hendersonville to
| satisfy the amount named in the in
strument.
The Iowa Way.
In Iowa MORTGAGE desiring to col
lect that which is due him on a note
secured by mortgage, must, by his at.
torney, file a petition in the district
court, serve an original notice upon the
defendants and all lien holders, and
after having obtained the judgment
and an order for the sale of the prop
erty which secured the payment of the.
note must order out an execution, by
which process the sheriff sells the
property to the highest bidder. II the
plaintiff buys it in he receives from the
sheriff certificate of sale, which in
zone year will entitle him to sheriff's
| deed it the property is not redeemed in
the meantime. 1t is a lot of red tape
to go thru with, but it gives the debtor
all the opportunity he could ask to:
| save his property, while in North Car
olina it seems that the mortgage may
sell the land without any such process,
altho no information is at hand to say
whether or not there is a period in
1 WAlSH ucDtOre iHdy IeuCGtu..s 49, III
Loan agents in Iowa are so strict in
their method of loaning money, that
if person desires to get loan on his
property he is required to furnish an
abstract of title that must be nearly
fawless and contain description eth
er by metes and bounds or by halves
and quarters and stating which half
and which lquartera if the parcel be
hon
In tho cafolinas.
| thelegalnotice printed in, the North
Carolina paper, it seems that a mort
gage company in the name OF trns-
tee had loaned a man the sum of $3.50,
for the payment Of which he had mort
gaged to the company parcel of land,
iwhichait proposed to sell to satisfy the
mortgage. The description will be of
interest and is given herewith. f
First tract: Lying in Edneyyille,
township, beginning at a chestnut, ID.
M. Justices corner on the west side
of the McDowall road and runs, north
| ,651@ degrees east 46 poles to a. black
oak on: the Dover line; thence with
/ the. Dover line south 8 degrees west
i 12, poles toia stake on the. south side
of the Hickor-- Nut Gap road in the
edge of the road; thence south 64%
1 degrees east two poles to a stake and
hickory pointers, thence south 25 de-
grees west 3 poles to a sycamore on
the bank of the river, thence south
SO degrees west 6 poles to a stake, at
B. Freeman's corner at the mouth of
the Reedy Patch creek; thence up the
river and with it's meanders north 72
i degrees west 30 poles. to a maple Just
above the bridge; thence with the
Reedy. Patch road south IS degrees
east II poles to stake thence with
i said road south % degrees west 20
poles to a, stake in the ford of Reedy
Patch creek; thence up the creek and
i with its northwest bank south IA de-
grees west Al poles to a poplar; thence
with the same south 1914 degrees west
10 poles and 16 links to buckeye;
thence with same south z degrees west
IL poles to a locust; thence with the
same south 1917 degrees west IA poles
to a spruce pine; thence with the same
south 1919 degrees west 2 poles to q
stake; thence with the same north 7G
4 degrees west 10 poles to a spruce pine;
thence with the same south SO degrees
west 1874 poles to a stake in the old
line, of the John Casey 500 acre survey;
thence with the said line north n
!, degrees west 36 poles to stone and
pointers. thence north 25 degrees east
% poles to a hickory; thence north 8
! degrees east "A poles crossing Hiek-
DRY Nut creek to a stake and bull
bush on the north bank of said
; creek; thence down the creek
and. with it's meanders north So degrees
east 33 poles to white oak on the
bank of the Broad river; thence up the
river and with its meanders the south
j, west bank north a. degrees west 81
poles to a stone where one rock lies
isupon another; thence up said river and
!, with its meanders the southwest bank
north II degrees east so poles to q
. stone in the old line of the John Casey
500 acre survey; thence with the said
line crossing the river north 6S degrees
east ten poles to a spruce pine on the
east bank ID. NJ. Justices corner;
thence with his. line to the beginning
, CONTAINING 104 acres more or less"