Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1905-09-21
Original Notice.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF AUDUBON
COUNTY, IOWA.
E. C. Rice, plaintiff

North Western Building q Loan Associa.
ton. The Home Saving & Trust Company,
The Unknown Owners and Claimants Of
To each and all of said defendants.
You are hereby notified that the petition
of the above named plaintiff against
file in the office of the Clerk of the Dis.
trict Court of Audubon County, Iowa, al
leginigg that ne is the re absolute and IN n!
Block in the town of Gray, Audubon
County, State of Iowa, under chain of
title from the United States down to and
including himself.
An abstract of the title thereto is set
out out in the petition And also alleging
holds and claims title and ownership to
said premises as above stated have been in
the actual, continuous, visible, notorious,
thereof, under color of title and claim of
ownership since about the year 1876. And
that plaintiff is ,credibly informed and
make some claims adverse to the estate
of plaintiff in and to said premises. But
he AYERS that all said claims ofdefendants
clouds and membranes upon the title
of plaintiff to said premises and tend to
iniure and depreciate the value thereof.
as shown by the deed records in the office
of the recorder of Audubon County,
Iowa, at one time held deed from the
es. But plaintiff AYERS that any title or
interest held by said Cordelia Donaldson
to said premises 1,,nse or by any owner or
Donaldson in any relation whatever is
| JUROR and inferior to the title and owner
| ship of plaintiff thereto. And that plain
| tiff has caused diligent search to be made
| to discover the whereabouts of said
Cordelia Donaldson and whether or
whether she has any heirs at law or
| whether there are any owners or claim
ants to said premises, under said deed
without success. And that plaintiff is
wholly without knowledge or information
- to said matters or as to who if anyone
| ,iainls said premises under the said con
| vevance to said Cordelia Donaldson.
| Also, alleging that the defendant George
Cray. as shown by the record of the re-
corder's office of Audubon County, Iowa,
at one time held a mortgage on said prem
| Use and the same does not appear to have
been satisfied and released of record as
| required by law. But that the same is not
| a lien on said premises, but the same is a
cloud and incumbrance upon plaintiffs
title to said premises,
| said premises be established against the
adverse claims of the defendants and that
the defendants and all persons claiming
| by, through or under them be barred and
| estopped forever from having or claiming
any right, title or interest adverse. to
And that the said mortgage to the defend
ant George Gray be satisfied and released
on the records of the recorders office
aforesaid. And plaintiff prays for such
other and furthur relief as the Court may
deem equitable. And plaintiff prays fol
defendants. And that unless you appear
| thereto and defend on or before noon of the
second day of the term of the District
Court of Audubon County, Iowa. to he
begun and held at Audubon, Iowa, on Dec.
ember ~, 1905. A default will be entered
against you and decree and Judgement
rendered thereon as prayed.
H. +. ANDREWS
Attorney for Plaintiff.
| Upon reading and consideration of the
petition, in the foregoing entitled
action the Court directs and approves the
foregoing Original Notice collected there
| from, this IS day of September 1905.
And it is hereby ordered that said notice
be published for six consecutive weeks in
the Audubon County Journal, a newspap
ter published at Extra, in Audubon County
| Iowa. w. IL, GREEN,
Judge 18th Judicial District of Iowa.