Mexico Missouri message., 1903-04-16


oRpER OF PUBLICATION.
STATE OF MISSOURI, :.
County of Audrain.
In the Circuit Court Of Audrain
County, Missouri, in vacation,
before June term, A. D. 1908.
Allen Park, Plaintiff,
VS..
The Unknown heirs or devisees of
Curtis Field, deceased, the IN
known heirs or devisees Of Cur
tbs Field, Jr., deceased, Edward
l.. Dimmitt, Lillian Dimmitt,
Maud Dimmitt, Edward DIM
mitt, Jr., Daisy Dimnitt, Fred
Dimmitt Jr., Bessie Dimmitt,
Mary Eva Garth and Walter
w. Garth, her husband. and
Lucy Fouts and Harvey Fouts,
her husband, Defendants.
Now on this Both day of March
A. D, 1903, in vacation, before the
June term, 1903, of the Circuit
Court of Audrain County, Mis-
souri,, comes the plaintiff herein,
by his attorney of record herein,
before said clerk aud on behalf of
plaintiff files his petition in suit
and affidavit of plaintiff herein.
Aud it duly appearing to the clerk
Of said Circuit Court, in vacation,
that plaintiff alleges in his duly
verified petition, under oath of
plaintiff, that the names of the de-
PENDANTS, the unknown heirs of
Curtis Field, deceased, and the un-
known heirs of Curtis Field, Jr.,
deceased, are unknown, and that
their places of residence are un-
known to this plaintiff, aud that
the defendants, Edward l.. Dim.
mitt, Lillian Dimmitt, Maud Dim
mitt, Edward Dimmitt, Jr., Daisy
Dimmitt, Fred Dimmitt, Jr., Bes-
sic Dimmitt and Lucy FOuts and
Harvey Fouts, her husband, are
not residents of the State of Mis-.
souri,, and that the ordinary pro.
cess of law cannot be served upon
them, or either of them, and it fur
Their duly appearing that said peti
ton describes the interest of sale
defendants in the real estate here
in controversy and how derived
so far as plaintiffs knowledge ex
tends. And said clerk, in vaca
ton, being from said affidavit
herein, and otherwise, duly salts
fed, and thereupon duly finding
that process herein can not b,
served on said defendants, or eithe
of them. 1t is, therefore, ordered
by said clerk that said defendant
be notified by publication that tn
plaintiff, by petition herein filed o
date March 80, 1908, has com
menced against said defendants al
action at law and in equity, the i'm
mediate object and general natur
! of which is to perfect the title o
the plaintiff herein, in and to tn
following described real estate
to-wit: The west half of tn,
) southwest quarter of section (12
twelve, township (51) fifty-one
range (11) eleven, west, in Au
drain County, Missouri; and t,
correct the description containe,
in a deed from John NJ. Samue
! and wife to Curtis Field, Jr.
dated the 18th day of March, 1863
and recorded in Book L." pag
COB, of the Deed records of An
drain County, Missouri; and tt
adjudge that Curtis Field and Cur
tbs Field, Jr., were one and tn
same person; and to adjudge tina
Curtis Field was then and eve
after that was a widoweT. And i
is further so ordered that said de
PENDANTS he and appear before tn
, judge of this court on the first da.
,, of the next term thereof, to b
holden at the City of Mexico, Au
drain County, Missouri, on Mon
day, the LIST day of June, A. D
! 1903, and on or before the frs
! day of said term to answer or plea
/ to said petition, or III defaul
therein said petition will be take
and adjudged as confessed, an
Judgment by default will be rel
I dered against said defendants.
. is further so ordered that a cop
hereof be duly published at leas
: once a week for four consecutiv
z weeks in the Mexico, Missou
MESSAGE, weekly newspaper
duly printed, published and circu
lated in Audrain County, Missouri
, and duly designated by plaintiff
e attorney, as most likely to give nc
a tice to the defendants; the last in
e scrtiOn to be at least thirty day
] before the first day of said nel
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