Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-25
Order Of Publication.
State of Missouri

County of Audrain
In the Circuit Court,
January Term, 1910.
d. w. Butler ....5..... Plaintiff.
VS..
Elmira Taylor Young, Mary Young,
Thanny Ann Young, Nancy Jane
Young Ellen Young, the heirs at
lAW. of Thornton Young, deceased
On they be not living their un-
kndt heirs. ........ Defendants.
THE STATE OF MISSOURI TO THE
ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS,
GREETING:
Your are hereby notified that on
this November 23rd, 1909, plaintiff
! filed with the Clerk of the Audrain
| County Circuit Court, in vacation, his
petition, duly verified by affidavit,
wherein among other things plaintiff
alleges that he is in possession of and
holds title to certain real estate
situated in the County of Au-
drain and State of Missouri
The West half Q-2) of the South
East quarter I'D, and ten and fifty
eight one hundredths QO.5S) acres,
being a part of the East half Q-2) of
the South East quarter Q-4) of Sec
ton Thirty-iive 1850 Township Fifty
two (52) North of Range Ten G0),
west of the 9Th p. NJ. bounded All des-
cribed as follows: Begin at the South
West corner of said east half U-2)
of the South East quarter U-4, anf
run thence East along the Section line
Three Hundred and forty (340) links,
then north to a point on the north
line of said quarter section one hun
dred and eighty-nine 0S9) links East
of the North West corner of said East
half G-2) of the South East quarter
| G-4), thence west one hundred and
eighty-nine 0S9) links to said north
west corner, thence South along the
west line of said East half Q-2) of
fthe South East quarter 40 to the
point of beginning, all the above des-
cTibed lands are being and situated in
Section Thirty-five $3.50 Township
Fifty-two (j2), North Range Ten U0)
West of the 9Th p. NJ. in Audrain
County, Missouri, containing in all
90.5S acres more or less as per
original survey; That the title to all
of said lands is vested in plaintiff and
those under whom he claims by limi-
tation under the provisions of Section
1868, Revised Statutes of Missouri for
1899 and the equitable title thereto
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Government more than thirty years
ago; and that plaintiff and those un-
der whom he claims have been in the
lawful, actual, open, notorious, con-
tinuous, exclusive and adverse pos
session thereof claiming said lands
and paying all taxes thereon for more
than thirty years.
And plaintiff in said petition fur
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Thornton Young, deceased, appear to
have a claim to title of record adverse
to that of plaintiff, in this, to-wit:
said Thornton Young obtained a rec
ord title to said lands herein des-
cribed by deed of warranty from
Thomas J. Davis and wife, Mary Ann,
dated January 18th, 1855, and filed
the same for record and said deed was
recorded in Book "E" page 1898, Deed
Records of Audrain county; that
in 1856 said Thornton Young
died intestate, leaving a widow,
Sarah Young, and his lawful
heirs, Elmira Taylor Young,
Mary Young, Thanny Ann Young,
Nancy Jane Young, and Ellen Young,
as his heirs, Sarah Young, the widow,
subsequently married one John Maggie
and she and her husband, John Maggie,
conveyed by quit-Claim deed all her
right, title and interest in and to said
lands on October 5th, 1868, as appears
of record in Book IN" page 1873, Re
corder's office in Audrain County,
Missouri, that in the year 1859, GER
tain judicial proceedings were COM
menced in the Audrain County Cir
: cult Court by the administrator of the
estate of Thornton Young, deceased,
together with the heirs herein named
) as the plaintiffs against one James n.
Rodman and certain orders of publ
cation were had in said Court with a
view of disposing of and selling said
? lands herein by judicial sale where
in James n. Rodman was alleged to
be nonresident of the State of Mis-
, souri, and said publication was vague
and defective in this, it failed to pro-
i perly describe said land and the judg-
ment entered insaid cause failed to
recite that said Rodman was duly
, served with process and the descrip-
, ton of said land in said proceedings
were vague, indefinite and uncertain
| by reason whereof there is a cloud on
plaintiffs record title.
Plaintiff further alleges that said
| Thornton Young died intestate more
, than thirty years ago and that the
names of the unknown heirs of said
Thornton Young other than those
named herein, if any there be, are un'
known to plaintiff and for that reason
' he can not insert their names herein
= that the interests of said unknown
persons, if any, is that Of the heirs o.
said Thornton Young and is derived
through said Thornton Young as theil
ancestor.
Plaintiff further says that the in
p terest of said unknown persons can
not be described more fully by hin
I because their interests is unknown
/, and all of whose names and places o
residence are unknown to him. Blu
S plaintiff verify believes that all of sail
:. defendants are non-residents of tn
State of Missouri