Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-09-12
ORIGINAL NOTICE.
In the District Court of Howard Coz
Iowa

! In the District Court of Howard County,
Iowa.
Mrs. Augusta Jones, Plaintiff,
John Nj. Hoffman, W. Fl. Young & Co., W m.
Fl. Young, Thos. l-ooper, and their un-
known grantees, mort ga ge les, and assignees,
and If deceased, their unknown heirs, de-
visees, and legatees, and the unknown
claimants Of the north east quarter On. f.
"A ofthe. south east Quarter Is. f. ~ Of
section eight (S) In township one hundred
| l00), north range twelve Q2), west Of the
9Th p M ..
To the abe We ma med defendants:
I You and each of you are hareby notified
that there is now on file in the office of the
clerk of the District court of Howard coun-
ty, Iowa, the petition of the plaintiff in the
above entitled action claiming that she is
the absolute and unqualified owner in fee
simple Of the north east quarter On. f.. ~ of
the south east quarter IS +. ~ of section
eight (S), in township one hundred 10O),
north OF range twelve N2), west of the 9th p
H., and S lid petition alleges that plaintiff is
credibly informed that the defendants claim
some interest adverse to her title in said
real estate as in said petition described.
The said petition further alleges that the
heirs. assignees, grantees and legatees of
said defendants and the interests Of the un-
known claimants and the mode Of devOlu-
ton thereof Is as follows, to-wit:
On March Is. 1870, John NJ. Hoffman the
then owner of said premises executed to
VIM. II. Young, VIM. Gray. and Thos.
other real estate which mortgage was re-
corded In book F, on pages 1917 l78, of the
records Of mortgages in Howard county,
Iowa. That said mortgage was fOreclosed in
the District court of Howard county, Iowa,
in an action In which w. III. Young 4 Co.,
was plaintiff, that W. II. Young Co., was
VIM. Gray and Thos. Hooper, and owned all
the interest that said VIM. III. Young, VIM.
Gray and Thos. Hooper had ever acquired
In said mortgage, and under said foreclosure
proceeding said real estate was sold to w. II.
Young Co., and q sherif's deed executed
to w. II. Young 4 Co., of the real estate in
real estate covered by said mortgage but the
recorder failed to or neglected to copy the
description Of the real estate involved In this
action into the record of the sheriff deed
when he recorded said sheriff S deed. That
Thos. Hooper transferred his interest in said
real estate to VIM. II. Young but the deed
showing said conveyance was never record
ed and is now lost. ...s.
That the persons d ssignated as unknown
defendants or unknown claimants of said
GescrlSed real estate derived their ite or
ever hGd, by, through, or under John NJ
Hoffman, Thos. Hooper, w. II. Young L. Co.,
or VIM. H. Young, or their heirs or as wife
or husband, or as grantee, assignee, devisee
or mortgage OF some OF them.
That this plaintiff purchased said real es.
tate rom Fred Parchman on March 3, 1873
that she and her grantors through whom
actual, exclusive, peaceable, undisturbed
and notorious possession Of said real estate
for period Of more than thirty years last
past under color of title nd claim of right
during all of which time she and her grant
Ors through whom she derived her title,
have claimed openly, VIGOROUSLY and pub
ltciy to be the owners in fee sim pie of said
described rel estate.
Plaintiff asks Judgment and decree OF said
Court ,squieting in her the title to said prem
ises and forever barring and estopping the
defendants and all persons claiming by.
through or under them or either of them
from having or claiming any interest in said
premises adverse o her title and that unless
you appear thereto and defend before noon
Of the second day of the next term of the
District court, Of Howard county, Iowa, /
which will be begun and held at Cresco, In
said county, on the sixth day of October,
1918, your default will be entered against |
you and Judgment and decree rendered |
thereon as provided for by law.
JOSEPH GRIFFIN,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
The foregoing original notice Is approved
and ordered published four consecutive
weeks In the CrescO Plain Dealer, q weekly
newspa per, published at Cresco, Howard
county. Iowa, the last publication to be not
less than ten days before the first day of the
next term of the District court of Howard
county, Iowa.l
9i3.
w. J. SPRINGER,
Judge of the Thirteenth Judicial District
If Iowa.