Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-11-26

Charles w. Hockenberry,
Plaintiff
.fohn Dodge g &, Apnie Dodge,
Baldwin, B. R. Pegram,
BENZ. R. Pegram, Mercy
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!. Sp2or. Robert NJ. Bar December Term
clay, Wenona Barclay the 1903
heirs at law ofthe afore.
mentioned defendants,
and the unknown claim
ants of the northeast
Quarter Of the southeast
quarter of Section 7, in
township Is, north of
Range 80, west of the 5th
?. NJ, in Audubon county,
Iowa, Defendants.
To the foregoing named defendants:
:, You and each Of you are hereby notified that
there is now file in the office of the Clerk of
the District Court, of Audubon county Iowa
the petition of plaintiff herein claiming that he
Is the absolute and unqualified owner in fee
east quarter of Section Seven az in Township
Ssae.yenty-eight (7sl north of Range Thirty-tiye
Soo) west OF the 9Th p. m. in Audubon county,
some claim to said property adverse to the title
OF plaintiff therein; that.whatever said claim
may be or whatever interest they or either of
from iron defendants g.. NJ. Dodge, Annie
Dodge. John I. Baldwin and Jane Baldwin
eltler as nelrS or deylSeeS of said defendants,
ana alleging that whatever interest they may
nave therein is junior and inferior to the title
OF plaintiff in and to said property; that the
places of residence of all of the defendants as
well as the names and places of residence of the
unknown heirs and claimants of said real estate
is nnknown to this plaintiff although he has
made dlligent search therefor; that on or about
the I'D day of January, 1857, defendants g. Nj,
Dodge, Annie Dodge, John I. Baldwin and
Jan! Baldwin executed and delivered to de-
veylng an undivided one-third interest in and
TO the southwest quarter of the north half of
the southeast quarter of Section Seven hereto
fore mentioned but that the intention of said
parties was to in fact transfer the southwest
quarter and the north half of the southeast
quarter of said section severn that on account
OF said mistaken description said deed did not
properly represent the intention of the parties
making 1t; and asking to have said deed so
corrected as to conform to the intention of the
partles making same and to transfer the land
last described also alleging that plaintiff and
ms grantors have been in actual open, visible,
notorious, continuous adverse possession of
SAID property last described under claim and
color OF title for more than twenty years, and
asking that his title to said real estate be for
ever Quoted as against the rights and claims of
defendants therein; and that unless you appear
ana defend thereto on or before noon of the
second day of the next term of said court to be
begun and held at Audubon, in Audubon county,
Iowa, on the Sth day of December, 1903 default
VIII be entered against you and judgment
rendered thereon prayed,
Dated October, 10th, 1903.
w. r. COPELAND.
H. Attorney for Plaintiff.
Upon reading the foregoing original notice.
and the petition therein mentioned, said notice
is hereby approved and it is hereby ordered
That same be published in the Audubon County
journal a newspaper published at Extra
Iowa, for six consecutive weeks.
Dated October Goth, 1903.
w. R. GREEN. Judge