Mexico Missouri message., 1903-04-09
Order Of Publication.


County Of Audrain. IS,
In the Circuit Court Of Audrain
| County, Missouri, in vacation,
before June term, A. d. 1903.
Allen Park, Plaintiff,
VS..
| The unknown heirs or devisees of
Joseph Smith, deceased, the un-
known heirs or devisees of Jo-
seph Smith, Jr., deceased and
the unknown heirs or devisees of
| Rhoda Smith, deceased, Defend
ants.
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, in vacation, and
on behalf of plaintiff files his petit
ton in suit and affidavit of plaintiff
herein. And 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 defendants, the unknown heirs
or devisees of Joseph Smith, de-
ceased, the unknown heirs or de-
visees of Joseph Smith, Jr., de-
ceased, and the unknown heirs or
devisees of RhOda Smith, deceased,
are unknown, and that their places
of residence are unknown to this
plaintiff. 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 be
served on said defendants, or any
of them. 1t is, therefore, ordered
by said clerk that said defendants
be notified by publication that the
plaintiff, by petition herein fled
of date March 80, 1903, has com
menced against said defendants an
action at law and in equity, the
immediate object and general ma
ture of which is to perfect the title
of the plaintiff herein, in and to
the following described real estate,
tO-wit: The west half of the south
west quarter of section twelve (12),
and the northwest quarter of the
northwest quarter of section thir-
teen (13), all in township fifty
one (51), range eleven I'D, i'll
Audrain County, Missouri, and to
adjudge and decree that Joseph
Smith and Joseph Smith. Jr., were
: one and the same person; and to
decree the title to said land out of
the defendants, and to declare the
same vested in the plaintiff. And
it is further so ordered that said
; defendants be aud appear before
, the judge of this court on the first
day of the next term thereof, to be
holden at the City of Mexico, Au-
drain County, Missouri, on Mon
day, the first day of June, A. D.
1903, and on or before the first
day of said term to answer or plead
/ to said petition, or in default
! therein said petition will be taken
and adjudged as confessed, and
Judgment by default will be rem
a., dered against said defendants. 1t
is further so ordered that a
copy hereof be duly published at
least once a week for four cOnsecu-
tive weeks in the Mexico, Missouri,
MESSAGE, alweekly newspaper, duly
!. printed, published and circulated
: in Audrain County. Missouri, and
duly designated by plaintiffs at
o torney, as most likely to give no
> tice to the defendants, the last in.
. sertiOn to he at least thirty days
before the first day of said next
term of said Circuit Court.
State of Missouri,
I County of Audrain. 81
l, w. ii. Morris, clerk of the
t Circuit Court of Audrain County,
Il Missouri, do hereby certify that
the foregoing writing is full, true
: and complete copy of the original
I order of publication in said cause,
y as fully as the same remains and
It appears of record in my office.
e In witness whereof l hereuuto
i subscribe my name aud official sig
,, nature, aud hereto affix the seal OF
/ said court, at my Office in the City
/, of Mexico, in Audraiu County
S Missouri, this Both day of March
= A. ID. 1908.
l. Seal. w. H. MORRIS,
~ Clerk Of Cirouif COnrt oi