Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-05-07
Order Of Publication

state Of Missouri 4 In the Circuit Court
County Of Audrain june term, lgos.
j. y. Robnett. Plaintiff
The unknown heirs, deyIsees and a.
signs and the widow 81 George w. Long,
deceased, aud all persons claiming OF
who might claim uuder them or either %
them. Defendants.
Now this April tTth, 1908, comes plain
tiH by Fry 4 Rodgers. his attorneys, and
flies with the Clerk OF the Audrain county
circuit court, his petition duly verified by
affidavit Of plaintiff, wherein among
0therthings plaintiff alleges that no IL The
owner and holder OF the title and In p0s~
session OF the following real estate situ-
ated In Audrain county, Missouri, to-wit;
All the north half OF the west fractional
one half Of section ~, township 81, range
o Ia Audraln county, Missouri, except the
following described tracts, to-wit: 2 7s-iu0
acres of the east side thereof, conveyed
by Wesley Nichols 10 J. Il. McDannald
by warranty deed dated March 9TH, 1904.
aud recorded In Book IS, page $50 deed
records Of AudrRln county, Missouri; aud
also excepting tract on the south side
thereof, being ~ l-2 feet wide at the
west end and - feet wide at the east end,
and tract containing 76-lO0 OF an aero
In the southeast corner thereof, the last
two described tracts having been con-
yeyed by Wesley Nichols 70 Frank Eek
itE UN uhfu uNHfu 1Ntls ANNss anu
recorded In Book az, page 2l2 OF said deed
records; and also excepting therefrom Is
acres more or less OIL the north side OF
the remainder Of said tract, conveyed by
Rachel Young and husband TO Ell Mich
OILS. by quit claim deed dated May 18th,
1907, and recorded In Book 65, page 433 Of
said deed records. The land above de-
scribed as owned by this plaintiff being
60 3B-l00 acres.
Plaintiff also states In his said petition
that heis inthepossesslOn OF said lands.and
he and those under whom he claims have
bee n in the lawful, actual, open, nOtori-
Gus, continuous and adverse possession OF
said lands and paid all taxes thereon and
c lalming said lands as their own for
more than 81 consecutive years last past
before fling this petition; that none OF
the defendants or any one for them have
paid any taxes on said lands for more
than 81 years last past, or brought any
action 70 recover said lands.
Plaintiff IN said petition states that he
verify believes there are persons who
might claim said real estate mentioned in
said petition or an interest In the same
as heirs, devisees or assigns OF said
George w. Long, deceased. or by through
or under him or as the widow OF said
party, George w. Long, whose names he
| cannot insert herein because they are un-
known TO plaintiff and whose inter-
csts he cannot describe because such in
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I his knowledge extends. their interests arc de-
nved as heis. devsees OF assigns Of said George
/ W. Long or the widow ol George W. Long.
OF as claiming by. through OF under
him. And that said George W. Long died many
yeAr ago and the names Of his hein. devisecr and
assigns and that Of his widow and their interests in
said lands arc unknown to the said plaintiff.
| Is therefore ordered by the Clerk Of the
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publication be made herein. notifying the de-
iendanIs Aforesaid. that plaintiff has begun suit
against them in the circuit eoUr, Of AudTain coua-
ly Missour. the object and general nature ol
which is TO obtain a decree Of said court pehecting
plaintiff title to the lands herein described. and
lor decree vesting in plaintiff all OF the night.
I title aad clam OF said defendants in said lands
under the provisions Of section 4l6S r. S. Of
Missouri 1899, and that taid defendants and
those claiming by. through or under them be
forever barred from claiming any title OF inieFes,
in said land. And now you. the unknown
heirs. devisees and assigns and the widow Of
George w. Losg. deceased. and al penons
claiming OF who might claim under them OF
either Of them. defendants herein. are hereby no
thed Of the filing Of said suit. the object and gen
eral nature thereof and unless you be and APP
pear at the next regular term Of said Audrain
county circuit court. TO begun and held at the
court house in Mexico Missouri. on the hTsi
Monday in June 1908. and on of before the hrsl
day Of sAid term answer OF otherwise plead to
plaintiff petition the same will be taken as eoa-
les,ed and decree rendered accordingly.
And it !, further ordered that copy hereof
be published IN the Mexico Missouri Message. a
weekly Newspaper publishsd in AudIain county.
Missouri. Tor our wenks sueeessively the las, IN
ser,ion to be at least day, before the hrs, day
Of said next term Of said eour,.
A tue copy from the record.
Attest. W. H. MORRIS. Clerk
I,SpAL) Fry Il Rodgers, Attys for Plaintiff