Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1903-11-12

duhon County.
Charles W. Hockenberry, l
Plaintiff
GIN. Dodge Annie Dodge,
John T. Baldwin, Jane
Baldwin, 3. R. Pegram,
BENZ; R. Pegrsm, Mercy
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7. spoor. Robert N. 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 Section I, in
Township rs, north of
Range 81, west of the 5th
T. NJ, In Audubon county,
Iowa, Defendants.
To the foregoing named defendants:
You and each Of you are hereby notified that
there is now on 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
simple OF the northeast quarter of the south
east quarter Of Section Seven az in Township
&35) west of the 5th p. m. in Audubon county,
Iowa, and that defendants named herein make
some claim to said property adverse to the title
may be or whatever interest they or either of
Them them 9 may have therein 1 vas derived
Dodge Joen Baldwin and DGdge Annie
either as heirs or devisees of said defendants,
and alleging that whatever interest they may
have 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 unknown to this plaintiff although he has
made diligent search therefor; that on or about
the 23d day of January, 1857, defendants G. NJ.
Dodge, Annie Dodge, John 7. Baldwin and
Jane Baldwin executed and delivered to de-
PENDANTS B. R. Pegram a warranty deed con.
veying an undivided onethird 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 seven; 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
parties making same and to transfer the land
last described; also alleging that plaintiff and
his grantors have been i'll actual, open, visible,
notorious, continuous adverse possession of
said property last described under claim aud
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
and defend thereto or before noon of the
second day of the next term of said court to be
begun and heldat Audubon, in Audubon county,
Iowa, on the sth day of December, 1903 default
will be entered against you and Judgment
rendered thereon as prayed.
Dated October, Goth, 1903.
W. R. COPELAND.
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, newspaper published at Extra,
Iowa, Tor six consecutive weeks.
Dated October 20th 1903
w. R. GREEN. Judge.