Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-12-16
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
TO pf Missouri

Enltilc VI hlSSOull
County of Audrain
In the Circuit Court, January Term, 1910
c. w. French ................P Plaintiff
The Unknown heirs Of James Pharr.
ueceased, -. '..'... defendants
THE STATE OF MISSOURI TO THE
AABBQEE NAMED DEFENDANTS,
You are hereby notified that on this
December 9TH, 1903, comes the plaintiff in
ABOVE entitled cause, and files with the
Clerk of the Audrain County Circuit
Court in vacation, his petition duly veri-
ned by affidavit of plaintiff. wherein
among other things plaintiff alleges that
described real estate situated in Audrain
County, Missouri, to-wit: The West half
Of the Northeast quarter of Section IS.
Up. 81, Range west that he and those
by and through whom he claims have
since the year lS62-mOre than 40 years
held open exclusive, notorious, continuous
ana peaceable possession OF all of said
land claiming to own the same in fee sim
pie; and that on the 3Oth day of October
1862 James Pharr was the lawful owner
OF said land and by warranty deed bear
ing said date and being recorded in Re
GSTTder S office of Audrain County in Book
M at page 20, undertook to convey the
same to Ephriam p. Pharr but by an
error in the description in said deed, con
veyed another tract of land.
Plaintiff in said petition further states
that said James Pharr is now dead. that
he left surviving him several descendants
as his heirs but whether living or dead,
and II living, their, present abode and
their names are wholly unknown to this
plainttn and therefore the names of de-
PENDANTS cannot be inserted herein; that
he believes that If said defendants are
living that they are non-residents OF the
state of Missouri and that If said de-
PENDANTS have any title or interest in said
land IL is by virtue of said descent and
heirship from said James Pharr and has
long since expired by limitation.
az. 1t rs therefore ordered by the Clerk Of
cation, that publication be made herein,
notifying the aforesaid defendants, that
plaintiff has commenced suit against them
in the Audrain County Circuit Court, the
object and general nature of which is to
obtain decree of said Court adjudging
and determining the interest and title if
any of the parties hereto to said land and
by its decree to preclude and bar said
defendants or any of them from claiming
or having any right to said land and
hereby notified of the hling of the plain
TINS suit, the object and general nature
thereof, and unless you be and appear at
the next regular term of the Audrain
County Circuit Court, to be begun and
held at the Court House, in Mexico, Au-
drain County, Missouri on the 3rd Mon
day IN January 1910 and on or before
the first day Of said term, answer or
otherwise plead to plaintiffs petition the
same VIII be taken as confessed and de-
cree rendered as prayed.
And IL Is further ordered that a copy
hereof be published in the Mexico Mis-
souri, Message a weekly newspaper pub
lished in Mexico, Audrain County, Mis-
souri,, for four weeks successfully, the
fore the first day of said next term of
Court.
4 true copy from the record.
Attest:
-, (Seall w, II MORRIS.
Clerk of Audrain County Circuit Court.
W. w. Bolts, Attorney for Plaintiff.