The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-02-23

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Circuit Court, in and for Lafayette
County, Missouri. In vacation.
Lafayette County. Missouri, Plaintiff.
B., f. Cox, Defendant.
Now on this the first day of Feb
ruary, 1912, comes the above named
plaintiff, and presents its petition to
the undersigned, Samuel Davis Judge
Of the Circuit Court within and for
Lafayette County Missouri, in vacation,
praying for an order appointing three
Commissioners to appraise certain lands
in Lafayette County, Missouri. desired
to be appropriated by said Lafayette
County Missouri, for public road pur-
poses, the lands so sought to be con-
demned and appropriated being describ-
ed as follows, viz:
Beginning at a stake 81 links west
and Is links north of the south end Of
a concrete culvert located near the sec
ton corner of Sections 20, u, rs and
20 Of Township 81, Range % in Lafay-
cite County, Missouri; thence north
o612 degrees west from said above nam
ed point along the south line of the
public road 1856 links to a post Is inches
in diameter. Thence south &C degrees
west along the south line Of said road
25S links to a post. Thence north 80
degrees east $40 links to the beginning:
containing twenty one-hundredths Of an
acre"
And it appearing from said petition
that the said land so sought to be
condemned and appropriated is owned
that said b.. f. Cox is a nonresident of
che state Of Missouri, and that the
County Court of Lafayette County,
Missouri, heretofore, to-wit on the 2Sth
day of December, 1911, found and en-
tered of record that a public necessity
existed for a change in the public
road in Section 20, Township 81, Range
70 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; that said County Highway En-
gineer made such survey and prepared
a map thereof, and of the proposed
change in said road, and filed said
map together with his report showing
the location and distance and lands
over, across and 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, and
MED said map and report with the CLERK
or the County Court of said Lafay-
cite County. Mo- and said County
Q OF Lafayette County being Of the
opinion that the proposed change in
SAID public road is a public necessity,
that the amount Of damages claimed by
b. f. Cox, the defendant herein, the
owner of said land over, across and
through which said road will run when
changed as proposed to be unreasonable
ana excessive. directed and ordered
ms suit to be brought in the Circuit
Court Of Lafayette County, Missouri. for
vided by iaw.
Now therefore, and by reason Of the
premises, the said B. f, Cox, defendant
herein, is hereby notified that the an.
plication of the said Lafayette County
missouri, for the condemnation of sale
and above described, and the appoint,
ment Of Commissioner to assess Tho
damages which the said B. f. Cox viii
sustain by reason Of the location OF r
pubic road upon said land will be hearf
by the Judge Of this Court. at Hig,
&insville, Lafayette County, Missouri. OF
luesday, the fifth day OF March, 1872
a. the our House during the session q
fhe Circuit Court within and for sale
Lafayette County, Missouri. M m,
Vile. :" AHssh9
And 1t is further ordered that a con,
or this order be published In the Lex.
Ington lntelligencer, a weekly newspape
pupisned In said Lafayette County, Mis-
souri,. Tor three weeks successively. pub
Isneu at least once a week, the las
insertion to be at least ten davs befor,
the said fifth day OF March, 1912.
Witness my hand this LIST day OF Feb
ruary, 1912.
SAMUEL DAVIS,
Judge OF the Circuit Court OF the i5tl
Judicial Circuit Of Missouri.
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