Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-03-25
SUMMONS

Defendants.
The STATE OF NEVADA SENDS GREET
ING TO:
Ihe Gold Creek Nevada Mining Com
pany, a corporations; The Gold Creek
Nevada Townsite Company, a corpor-
ation;s The Gold Greek Nevada Inn
provement Company, a corporations;
Francis Dickson; Bnjamin F. Warren,
Trustee of the Hopkins Trust Fund of
New York, his. successor or successors;
L.. G. Irland; John Doe, Richard Roe
and Jane Doe, Defendants.
You are hereby required to appear In
an action brought against you by the
above named Plaintiff, in the District
Court of the Fourth Judicial District
of the State Nevada, in and for the
County of Elko, and to answer the
complaint filed therein, within ten
days exclusive Of the day of s~ervice)
after the service on you of this sum-
mons, if served within this county; or
If served out of this county. but in
this district, within twenty days, other
wise within forty days, or Judgment by
default will be taken against you &C
cording to the prayer of said complaint.
The said action is brought to quiet
title to, and to determine adverse
claims to the following described real
property, to wit:
That piece or parcel of land situate
in Elko County. State of Nevada,
knowna as and described as the Town.
site of Gold Greek, Elko County, Ne.
vada, according to the Plat of the
same, filed in the Office of the Recorder
Of Elko County, State of Nevada, en-
titled Map of the Townsite of Z old
Creek, in the County of Eiko, State of
Nevada, as laid out at the date of said
map, made'by Benjamin s. Church of
New York, Civil Engineer, dated May
10, 1897, (Signed) Benjamin S.. Church.
Chief Engineer" which said map is
annexed to and forms part of O certain
deed laying out the Townsite of Gold
Creek and aedicating to the public the
use of certain lands as public streets,
which deed wa made and executed by
the Gold Creek, Nevada, Townsite
Company and was dated the 10th day
of May, 1897, and recorded in the Office
of the Recorder of iElko County, Ne
vada, on the 18th day of May, 1897,
in Book twenty-four t24) Of Deeds, at
Page four hundred and sixty-four (484);
save and excepting from said Townsite,
as above described, Lots One ID and
Twelve (12) of Block number Eleven
11) of the said townsite of Gold Creek,
by said plaintiff, John r. Hardman,
who, by himself and his predecessors in
interest, has been in actual, exclusive,
open, continuous, notorious and ad-
verse possession of said property for
more than eight years prior to the fl
ing of the complaint herein, claiming
to own the same in fee against the
whole world and who has by himself
paid all taxes of every kind levied or
assessed and due against the said prop
erty during, the period of FIVE years
next preceoingthe' filing of the com.
plant, and said plaintiff prays that
plaintiff be deoreed to be the lawful
owner in fee of the, above described
real property, against the whole world;
that the defendants may be required to
set forth nature of their claims and
that all adverse claims of the defendants
may be determined by decree Of this
Court; that by s,id decree it shall be
declared and adjudged that the de-
PENDANTS have no estate or interest
whatever in or to said lands or prem
ises; that the defendants be forever en-
Joined and debarred from asserting any
claim in or to said lands and promises
adverse to the plaintiff, and for such
other relief as to this Honorable Court
may seem just all of which will more
fully appear by reference to said com
And you are hereby notified that if
you fail to appear and answer said
as above required, the said
plaintiff will apply to the Court for
the relief demanded therein.
GIVEN under my hand and the Seal
of the District Court of the Fourth Ju-
dicisl District of tho State of Nevada.
In and for the County of Elko, this
goth day January, A. d. 1918.
FRED G. VoIeHT, Clerk.
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