Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
Plaintiff.

vs..
Sarah L. Williams, IL living, and
If dead, the unknown heirs, de-
visees and legatees of Sarah T..
Williams, deceased; William II.
Williams, II living, and if dead,
the unknown Nheirs, devisees
and legatees of William II. Will
liams, deceased; Madison II.
Price, If living, and If dead, the
unknown heirs, deyisees and
legatees of Madison II. Price,
deceased; Nancy J. Price, if
living, and IL dead, the unknown
heirs, devisees and legatees of
Nancy J. Price, deceased; William
j. Price, If living, and If dead,
the unknown heirs, devisees
and legatees of William ].
Price, deceased; and the un-
known heirs, devisees and
legatees of George NJ. Castelow,
deceased, ............ Defendants.
The State of Missouri to the above
named Defendants, Greetings:
Now at this day comes Clarence
A. Barnes, attorney for Mary A.
Hodges, plaintiff in the above enti-
tied cause and presents to the Court
plaintiffs duly verified petition, this
day filed with the Clerk of said Court,
alleging and setting forth among
other things that she is the owner
in fee and in the lawful possession of
the following described real estate
situated in the city of Mexico, in the
County of Audrain in the state of
Missouri, to-wit: Lot ten 10), block
one a., Lakenan G. Barnes Addition
to the city of Mexico, Missouri.
That on n ptt J,vr %
April, 1885. Eliza e. Castelow pur-
chased said real estate from Colby
T. Quisenberry, paying the purchase
price thereof, and accepted a deed
conveying said real estate to her then
husband, George NJ. Castelow, who
held the title to same in trust for
said Eliza e. Castelow; that after
wards, and on or about the day
of ---, 1885, the said George M
Castelow died intestate in Audrain
County, Missouri, leaving as his
heirs and only heirs at law, his
widow, the said Eliza u. Castelow;
Madison II. Price and William j.
Price, his half brothers; and Sarah
r. Williams, his half sister; that at
all times herein mentioned, Nancy j.
Price was the wife of said Madison
H. Price, and William II. Williams
the husband of the said Sarah +.
Williams and the said William j. Price
was single and unmarried; that after
wards and on or about the End day
of October, 1885, the said Madison H.
Price and wife Nancy j. Price the
said William j. Price and the said
Sarah f. Williams and husband
William II. Williams, heirs as afore-
said of said George M. Castelow, de-
ceased, by deed of that date, under
took to convey the legal title to said
real estate, and other property, to
the said Eliza b. Castelow, which
deed was recorded in the Office of the
Recorder CT Deeds for Audrain county
Missouri, on October End, 1885, in
Record Book 26 at page 421; that in
drawing said deed the scrivener
omitted to name said Lot Ten 10)"
in Block One % in Lakenan G. Bar
nes Addition to Mexico, Missouri,
although all the parties intended
that the same should be described in
said deed and all their right, title and
interest in same conveyed to the said
Grantee therein.
That said Grantee in said deed inn
mediately, upon delivery thereof, and
on the End day of October 1885, took
possession of said real estate first
herein described, and she and her
grantees have been in the open,
notorious, exclusive and adverse pos
session of said real estate ever
after, claiming title thereto in fee
simple; that said Eliza e. Castelow
intermarried with John N. Humphrey,
and that plaintiff claims title to
said lands by mesne cOnveyances from
the said Eliza e. Humphrey CORNER
ly Eliza e. Castelow) and husband
John N. Humphrey.
! Plaintiff further states that she is
unable to state whether or not the
said Madison H. Price, Nancy J. Price,
| William ]. Price, Sarah Fl. Williams
\ and William II. Williams are living or
dead; and that she verify believes
there are persons interested in OF
who claim to be interested in the
subject matter of this petition, whose
names she cannot insert herein be.
cause they are unknown to her, and
that the claims and interests of such
unknown persons, so far as is known
to her and in so far as her knowledge
extends, are derived as heirs of
George M. Castelow, deceased, and
if Madison Fl, Price be dead, as
heirs, devisees and legatees of Madi-
son H. Price, deceased; and if Nancy
j, Price be dead, as heirs, devisees
and legatees of Nancy J. Price, de-
ceased; and if William ]. Price be
dead, as heirs, devisees and legatees
of said William j. Price, deceased !;
and if Sarah F. Williams be dead, as
heirs, deyises and legatees of said
Sarah F. Williams, deceased; and if
William II. Williams be dead, as
heirs, devisee sand legatees of
! William II. Williams, deceased.
! Plaintiff states that said de-
PENDANTS Madison II. Price, Nancy
| j. Price, William j. Price,
Sarah f. Williams, and William H.
Williams, and each of them, If living,
are non-residents of the state of Mis-
souri,, and that the ordinary process
of law cannot be served upon them
in the State of Missouri, and plaintiff
designates the Mexico Missouri Mess