Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-08-29
ORIGINAL N0TIcE.
In the District Court of Howard County,
Iowa.

In the District Court of Howard CouE ty,
| Iowa.
Mrs. Augusta Jones, Plaintiff, ~"
John NJ. Hoffman, w. II. Young & Co.. VIM.
Il. Young, Thos. l copper, and their un.
known grantees, mort ga gees, and assignees,
visees, and legatees, and the unknown
claimants of the north east quarter IN. f..
M OF the south east quarter Is. f.. M of
section eight (S) in township one hundred
400, north range twelve (l2), west Of the
9Th p. nj. .. grl
TO the above named defendants ,,,,-4
You and each of you are hereby notified
that there is now on file in the office OF the
ty, Iowa, the petition of the plaintiff in the
| above entitled action claiming that she Is
the absolute and unqualified owner in fee
the south east quarter Is. i. ~ of section
eight 8), in township one hundred lOO),
north OF range twelve I2), west OF the 9Th p.
credibly informed that the defendants claim
real estate as in said petition described
The said petition further alleges that the
apparent Interests of the said unkn ,wn
heirs; assifnees, grantees and legatees OF
said defendants and the interests of the I'M
known claimants and the mode of devolu-
ton thereof is as follows, to-wit:
VIM. II. Young, Win. Gray and Thos.
Hooper, a mortgage on said real estate with
corded in book F, on pages 176-177 l7s, of the
records Of mortgages in Howard county,
Iowa. That said mortgage was foreclosed in
in an action in which W.aH. Young l. Co.,
was plaintiff, that w. II. Young 4 Co., was
Rartnership composed Of VIM. II. Young,
the interest that said VIM. Ii. Young, VIM.
Gray and Thos. Hooper had ever acquired
In said mortgage, and under said foreclosure
Young 4 Co., and q sherif's deed executed
to w. II. Young & Co., of the real estate in
volved in this action together with the other
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 IS 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.
That the persons esignated as unknown
defendants or unknown claimants of said
described real estate erived their title, or
interes, in or lien upon If any they have Or
eyer e,, had' by, through e, or under John NJ.
or VIM. H.. Young, or their heirs or as wife
or sband, or as grantee. assignee, devisee
or mortgage Of some of them.
That this PLAINTIFF purchased said real es.
that she and her grantors through whom
she claims and derived her title have been in
actual, exclusive, peaceable, undisturbed
and notorious possession of said real estate
for a period Of more than thirty years last
past under color of title End claim of right
during all of which time she and her grant
have claimed openly, notoriously and pub
licly to be the owners in fee simple Of said
described real estate.
Plaintiff asks judgment and decree of said
ses and forever barring and estopping the
defendants and all persons claiming, by. |
through or under them or either of them
rom having or claiming any interest in said
you appear thereto and defend before noon
If the second day of the next term of the