Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1904-09-01
October. 1904, term,
In Equity
Original Notice.

QeIenQantS.
To the aforesaid defendants:
You and each of you are hereby notified
the, Clerk, Of the district court Of
Annie Mag1eae Ghristensen pee pe''aa nn Gs
Magrete rasmussen, plaintiff, claiming
that she Is the absolute and unqualified
Lot Six. Section Three, Township seventy
eight, Range thirty-six, west of the 5th P.
n in Audubon County. Iowa; that plain
that defendants herein make some claim
property and that plaintiff believes. that
as heirs of Peter Rasmussen, and that
said claims are a cloud upon the title of
feges that plaintiff and those under whom
she obtained title to and possession
Of said premises, have been in
and contnuous thsTeof under color
Deccember sth, 1890. That the real name Of DE-:
although she has made diligent inquiry to
learn OF those who might know; that said de:
tse sn That she Ssd x shs Ps sa Rs
mussen herein mentioned in the City of Omaha.
Nebr., at or near 6l4 Pierce St. from about 1850
to 1859; that plaintiff was born to said Helene
about Dec 3rd, 1884, and that there were no
other children ever born to said parents except
about Oct. 11th. 1857; that said Helene
and said Peter Rasmussen were never married
and that this fact was matter of common
out to the public as being unmarried and that
they had the right at any time to separate, and
that about the year 1884, or 1885, the said Helene
went to and lived with one Helmkjor with
whom she afterwards left the State of Nebras-
ka and her whereabouts have ever since been
unknown to plaintiff or to said Peter Rasmus-
sen. That said Peter Rasmussen died intestai
in the year 1891, in Audubon County, Iowa,
leaving as ms sole and only survivor and heir
and never had any children born to him except
plaintiff and Susan. herein mentioned who
died in infancy; that said Helene---i is not
now, and never was, an heir of said Peter Ras.
mussen, for the reason that no legal marriage
relations ever existed between them, that at the
herein described; that he had no properly
nor money at the time that said Helene -.
Scribed was by him bought after she deserted
him and the same was almost wholly paid for
by the earnings of plaintiff after his death;
that plaintiff has attached to her petition,
which Is made part thereof, an abstract of
title to said land; That the names and resi-
dence OF said unknown claimants Of said
premises are unknown to plaintiff, and that
She has diligently sought to learn the same,
and plaintiff prays that her title and estate
defendants. and each OF them and that ali
persons claiming by, through, or under them,
be barred and forever estopped from having
VI Cid!AuilS any rlSuu, Ulgle OF interest," adverse
to plaintiff in said land and that the cloud
upon her title be removed, and prays for such
other and further relief as the court may
against defendants for costs.
And that unless you appear thereto and de-
lend on or before noon of the second day of
the next term of said court which will COM
mence on Oct. 18th, 1904, at the court house in
Audubon, Iowa. default will be entered
against you and decree and Judgment rend-
cred thereon as prayed.
GEORGE F. KAPP
Attorney for Plaintiff.
The foregoing original notice having been
same, it is hereby approved at Audubon,
Iowa, on Aug. 9th. 1904 and it is ordered that
said notice be published for six consecutive
weeks in the AUDUBON COUNTY JOURNAL, a
newspaper printed and published at Extra,
Iowa w. r. GREEN.
Judge.