Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-08-15
STATE OF MICHIGAN. County of

Gratiot.
In the Circuit Court for the County
Of Gratiot-In Chancery.
Fred S. VanBuskirk,
VS.. Complainant,
William Green, or his unknown heirs,
legatees, devisees, or assigns, Ro-
bert n. Ri .Iardson or his unknown
heirs, legatees, devisees or assigns,
Robert A. Richardson or his un-
unknown heirs, legatees, devisees or
assigns, Oliver Richardson or his
unknown heirs, legatees, devisee or
assigns, and James M. Ropplege or
his unknown heirs, legatees, devil
sees or assigns,
Defendants.
At the regular session of said Court
held in the Court House in the Viii
lage of Ithaca, in said County, on the
1st day of July, A. D. 1912;
Present, the Hon. Kelly S. Scarf,
Circuit Jud re.
Fred S. VanVanBuskirk the above
nam / Complainant, having filed in
said Court Bill of Complaint against
the above named defendants, William
Green or his unknown heirs, legatees,
devisees on assigns; Robert NJ Rich
ardson or his unknown heirs, legatees,
devisees or assigns; Robert A. Rich
ardson or his unknown heirs, lega-
tees. devisees or assigns; Oliver Rich
ardson or his unknown heirs, lega-
tees devisees or assigns; and James
NJ Ropplege or his unknown heirs,
legatees, devisees or assigns, and
and remove clouds from the title to
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tiot and described as follows: the
south west quarter of section twenty
eight in township eleven north of
range three west, Michigan, and which
said bill of complaint having been
duly verified by the said complainant,
and,
1t satisfactorily appearing to the
Court from the said verified bill of
complaint and from affidavit on file
in said cause that diligent search and
inquiry have been made to ascertain
the present residence or whereabouts
of the above named and unnamed
and unascertained defendants and of
each of them, and that it is not known
and cannot be ascertained whether
tn or any of them, are living or
dead, or where they or any of them
reside, if living, or whether the ap-
parent title, interest, claim or posi-
bic right in or to the said lands has
been by them or by any of them
assigned to any person or persons, or,
if dead, whether they or any of them
have personal representatives or heirs
living or where they or some of them
my reside, if living, or whether such
apparent title, interest, claim or posi-
bic right has been disposed of by will,
and, if by will, who were their heirs,
legatees, devisees or assigns;
And it further appearing to the sat
isfactior of the Court, that the said
named, unnamed and unascertained
persons are necessary and proper par
ties to this suit, and it further appeal
ing that more than fifteen years have
elapsed since the instruments affect
ing the title to the said lands and
which are the subject matter Of this
suit, were recorded in the office of
the Register of Deeds for said coun-
ty;
THEREFORE, On motion of Kress
& Durham and O. G. Tuttle, Solici-
tors for said Complainant, it is order
ed that the above named defendants
and the above unnamed and unascer-
tanned defendants, and each of them,
cause his or their appearance to be
entered in this cause, on or before
the end day of December, A. D. 1912
and in case of his or their appearance,
that he or they, cause his or their
answer or answers to Complainant's
Bill of Complaint to be filed in said
cause, and a copy of such answer or
answers to be served on Complain
ants Solicitors within twenty days
after service on him or them of a
copy or copies of said Bill O. Com
plant and notice of this order, and
that in default thereof, said Bill of
Complaint be taken as confessed by
saio defendants or so many of them
as shall be in default;
And it is further ordered, that with
in twenty days after the date of this
order, the Compliments cause a copy
thereof to be published in the Alma
Record, a newspaper printed, pub
lished and circulating in said county,
and that such publication be contin-
ued therein at least once in each week
for six successive weeks, or that the
said complainant cause copy of this
order to be personally served on said
defendants and each of them at least
twenty days before the time prescri-
bed herein for their appearance.
KELLY S. SEARL,
Countersigned,
Circuit Judge.
R. E. HUGHES,
Register in Chancery.
This suit is brought to quiet and
remove clouds from the title to the
lands described in said bill of COM
plant as follows:
The southwest quarter of section
twenty-eight in township eleven north
of range three west, Michigan.
KRESS & DUNHAM and
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