Mexico Missouri message., 1910-08-25
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

1910.
@. c. Mallory, .............. Plaintiff,
VS..
The unknown consorts, heirs, devisees.
donees, alienees or immediate,
mesne or remote, voluntary or in
voluntary grantees of Martin Grove,
deceased, ............. Defendants.
The State of Missouri to the above
named defendants, Greeting:-
You are hereby notified that hereto
fore, to-wit: on August Sth, 1910,
plaintiff in the above entitled cause
filed with the Clerk of the Audrain
County Circuit Court, in vaca-
tion, his petition duly veri-
among other things plaintiff states that
ever since the year 1877, this plaintiff
and his grantors under whom he
claims title have been in the actual,
continuous, open, notorious, adverse
and exclusive possession of the follow
ing described real estate in Audrain
County, Missouri, to-wit: The west half
Q-2) of the southwest quarter 90 OF
section eleven I'D, township fifty-two
(52) north range ten 00) west of the
fifth Principal meridian, claiming to
own the same and paying all taxes
thereon during all that time, whereby,
plaintiff has become and now is the
owner of said lands by adverse possess
sion; that the title to said lands emal-
ated from the United States Govern
ment by letters patent dated May list,
1854. to one Martin Grove, that there
after and prior to the year 1877, said
Martin Grove departed this life with.
out having conveyed said land leaving
surviving him his widow, Mary Grove,
now long since deceased and as his
heirs at law, James p. Grove and wife,
Annie; Jos. NJ. Grove and wife, Bessie
D., Richard Farrell and wife, Missouri;
Richard NJ. Ragland and wife Jeriah,
Martha Houchens, a widow; James
Maupin and wife Mary E., Sallie T.
Grove, a single person, Addison d..
Grove and Mollie, his wife; George w.
Norvell and wife Annie B., Robert
Hardwick, Thomas NJ. Hardwick, Jonn
A. Hardwick, and wife, Carrie j.,
James w. Hardwick, George l.. Hut
sell and wife Sallie B., and Susan
Boyce, all of whom have heretofore
conveyed their interest in and to said
land to one John Farrell by quit claim
deeds which are duly recorded, that
thereafter, on December Goth, 1885,
said John Farrell being in possession
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f. Clark by quit claim deed duly re-
corded and that through mesne con-
veyances from said G. f. Clark, plain
tiff has acquired title to said lands.
And plaintiff further alleges in said
petition that he verify believes divers
unknown persons interested in the
subject matter of this suit whose
names and places of residence he can.
not insert herein because they are un-
known to him and who derive or claim
to derive their title or claim as con-
sorts, heirs, devisees, donees, alienees,
or immediate, mesne or remote, volun-
tary or involuntary grantees of Martin
Grove, deceased.
1t is therefore ordered by the
Clerk of the Audrain County Circuit
Court in vacation, that publication be
made herein, notifying the aforesaid
defendants that plaintiff has COM
menced suit against them in the Au-
drain County Circuit Court the object
and general nature of which is to OBJ
tain a decree of said court divesting
the title to the aforesaid land out of
said defendant and declaring that said
plaintiff has the title to said land by
limitation, and that the said title be
vested in plaintiff free from any
claim of the defendants herein, or their
heirs, assigns, devisees or persons who
might claim or who claim under them
in said land; and now you defendants
herein, are hereby notified of the pen
dency of this suit, the object and gem
eTal 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, Audrain County, Missouri
on the 3rd Monday in September, 1910,
and on or before the first day of said
term, answer or otherwise plead TO
plaintiffs petition the same will be
taken as confessed and decree render
ed as prayed in the petition
And 1t is further ordered that a copy
hereof be published in the Mexico Mis-
souri, Message, a weekly newspaper
published in Audrain County, Missouri
for four weeks successfully, the last
insertion to be at least Is days before
the first day of said next term of said
court.
A true copy from the record.
(SeaD Attest: w. H. MORRIS,
Clerk Circuit Court.
BY Pearl M. Morris, d. C.
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