Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1913-05-23
Summons.
In the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon, for Polk County.
Department No. 2.

Summons.
In the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon, for Polk County.
Department No. 2.
E. L. Ketchum, Plaintiff, V. Villa
nina Cooley, Matthias Cooley, Will
liam E. Smith, Alice Smith, Lau-
renee M. Smith, Dollie Smith,
LYDIA Smith Thomas, Ivan Smith,
Addie Smith, Laura E. Monroe,
Obed Monroe, Willis M. Smith,
Maud Smith, Willvin M. Smith,
Minnie Smith, B. L. Griffith, the
unknown heirs Of B. L. Griffith, de-
ceased, and also all other persons
or parties unknown, claiming any
right, title, estate, lien on interest
in the real estate described in the
complaint herein, Defendants. No.
4181.
To Laurence M. Smith, Dollie Smith,
Laura E. Monroe, Obed Monroe
and the unknown heirs of B. l..
Griffith, deceased, defendants above
named:
In the Name of the State of Ore
gon: You are hereby required to ap-
pear and answer the amended COM
plant filed against you in the above
entitled Court and suit within six
weeks from the date of the first pub
lication Of this summons, to wit: on
or before the 31st day of May, 1913;
and if you fail so to answer, for want
thereof the plaintiff will apply to
said Court and take decree against
you for the relief demanded and
prayed for in said complaint, viz.
l. That the said defendants may
be required to set forth the nature
of their claims in and to the follow
ing described real estate, to wit:
Beginning at the Southeast cor
ner of the Donation Land Claim
of Fielden M. Thorp and Margaret,
his wife, Notification No. 1888,
Claim No. 40, in Township 8 South
of Range 4 West of the William
cite Meridian, in Polk County,
State of Oregon, and running
thence West 1000 chains to the
Northeast corner of the Hezekiah
Davidson Donation Land Claim,
No. AZ, in said Township and
Range; thence South along the
East boundary line of said David
son Donation Land Claim $3.50
chains to the Southeast corner of
said Claim; thence South 313
chains to the North boundary line
of the Alexander V. McCarty Do
nation Land Claim; thence East
2.65 chains to the Southwest cor
ner of the John Thorp Donation
Land Claim No. 81; thence North
IA deg. Is min. East 77.62 chains
to the Northwest corner of said
Claim; thence West 11.12 chains to
the Southwest corner of the David
Johnston Donation Land Claim;
and thence North 7.99 chains to the
place of beginning, containing
96.75 acres, more or less,
and that all adverse claims of The
defendants may be determined by a
decree of said Court.
2. That by said decree it be de-
clared and adjudged that the defend
ants have no estate nor interest what
ever in or to the said land or prem
ises, and that the title of plaintiff
thereto is good and valid.
3. That the defendants be forever
enjoined and debarred from asserting
any claim whatever in or to said land
or premises adverse to the plaintiff,
and that plaintiff may have such
other and further relief as to the
Court may seem equitable,
This summons, by order of the Hon.
J. B. Teal, County Judge of Polk
County, Oregon, made at Chambers
in the city of Dallas, on the 10th day
of April, 1913, is served upon you by
the publication thereof for a neriod
of six consecutive weeks Immediately
prior to the 31st day of May, 1913,
in the Polk County Observer, news
paper of general circulation publish
ed at Dallas, in said County of Polk.
The date of the first publication Of
this summons is April IS, 1913.
OSCAR HAYTER,
Alb $50 Attorney for plaintiff.