The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-02-09

}. +. Cox, Defendant.
Now on this the first day of Feb
ruary, 1912, comes the above haihtu
plaintiff. and presents its petition TO
lie undersigned, samuel Davis Judge
1l the Circuit Court within ana toI
LAFAYETTE County Missouri, In vacation,
PRAYING for an order appointing thIee
commissioners to applaise certain ANU,
in Lafayette County, Missouri, desired
ro he anpropriated by said Lafayette
County Missouri, for public O pur-
poses, the lands so sought to be con
lemned and appropriated being descrlo-
ed as follows, viz:
Begin ing at q stake 5l INKS west
and Is links north of the south enc or
a concrete culveIt located near the sec
ion corner of Sections 20, q, y ana
% of Township 81, Range 25 in Lafay-
cite County, Missouri; thence north
S6lb degrees west iron, said above nam
ed point along the south line OF the
| public read 1886 inks to a post 10 inches
in diameter. Thence south &C degrees
vest along the south line of said o a
! ,5S links to a post. Thence north ~
teg1 ees east $40 links to the beginning
containing twenty one-hundredths OF an
gcre.'
And it appearing from said petition
tat the said land so sought to be
Gndemned and appropl lated is owned
by p. +. Cox, the defendant herein,
at said b. f. Cox IS a nonresident OF
che state of Missouri, and that the
Ountv Court OF Lafayette County.
Missouri. heretofore, to-wit on the 2Sth
day of December, 1911, found and en-
erred OF record that a public necessity
ryisted fer a change in the publi-
-oal in Section 30, Township 81, Range
- In Lafayette County. Missouri. and
directed the County Highway Engineer
Of said County to survey and mark
out said proposed change In said public
road; hat said County Highway En-
gineer made such survey and prepared
a mar thereof, and Of the proposed
change I'm said road, and filed sale
map together with his report showing
7e location and distance and lands
over. across aud upon which said pro.
posed change in said public road would
run. said land being the land herein
before described together with a state.
ment of the amount Of damages claim
ed by each landowner, so far as the
same could be ascertained by him, ant
He'd said map and report with the Clerl
~ the County Court Of said Lafay.
cite County. Mo, and said COUNTY
Court of Lafayette County being of tn,
opinion that the proposed change il
said public road is a public necessity
mat the amount of damages claimed by
.. f.. Cox, the defendant herein, tn,
owner of said land over, across an(
through which said road will run whei
= hanged as proposed to be unreasonabl,
and excessive. directed and ordered
dhis suit to be brought In the Circuit
Court of Lafayette County, Missouri, 70.
the condemnation Of said land, as pro
vided by iaw.
Now therefore, and by reason of tn,
premises. the said b. T.. Cox. |defendan
herein, Is hereby notified that the an
plication Of the said Lafayette County
Missouri, for the condemnation Of sal,
land above described. and the appoint
ment of Commissioner to assess tn
damages which the said b. T.. Cox VIII
sustain by reason Of the location OF
public road upon said land will be hear,
bv the Judge Of this Court, at Hig
ginsville. Lafayette County, Missouri. o.
tuesday. the fifth day of March. 1912
at the Court House during the session
the Circuit Court within and for sal
Lafayette County, Missouri, at tn
March Term, 1912, thereof, at Higgins
VILE.
And It is further ordered that a cop
OF this order be published In the Lex
ington ~Intelligencer, a weekly newspape
published in said Lafayette County, Mis-
souri,, for three weeks successively, pub
lished at least once a week, the las
insertion to be at least ten DAYS befor
the said fifth day Of March, 1912.
Witness my hand this 1st day of Feb
! ruary, 1912. .
SAMUEL DAVIS,
2 Judge of the Circuit Court OF the 15t
judicial Circuit Of Missouri.
2-9-y3.