Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1913-07-24
Original Notice

his wife, John Walton, Mary Walton
his wife, jeremiah ID. Walton and
Mary Walton, his wife, the unknown
heirs of John Walton, deceased, and
Nancy Dye, the husband of Nancy
Dye, christian name unknown. Lovey
White, husband of Lovev White.
christian name unknown. Mary A.
Mansfield, the husband of Mary A.
Mansfield, christian name unknown,
Joseph Wesley Walton and wife of
Joseph Wesley Walton, the unknown
heirs, devisees OF any and all of the
parties above named, and all parties
interested in the estates of amy OF
said parties, and the unknown claim
ants to that portion of the southwest
quarter of the southeast quarter and
southeast quarter OF southwest quar-
ter of section No. 4. and that portion
OF the northeast quarter of the north
west quarter of section No. 4, herein
after particularly described, all i'm
township iS north, range No. AZ. west
of ) p. NJ, Defendants.
To the above named defendants
and each of them, and to the un-
known claimants of the land herein
described:
You and each of you are hereby
notified that there is now ON file i'm
the office of the clerk of the district
court of Harrison County, Iowa. a
petition, by the plaintiff, NJ $. Meats,
claiming that that he is the absolute
and unqualified owner of the following
specifically described tracts OF parcels
OF land, being and lying in the south
west quarter of the southeast quar-
ter of section No. 4 and i'm the south
east quarter of the southwest quar-
ter of section No. 4, and i'm the north
east quarter of the northeast quarter
OF section No. Z, all in township No
Is north, range As west of 5th y. NJ,
Harrison County, Iowa, viz. Conn
mencing at the northeast corner of
the southwest quarter OF the south
east quarter of said section No. g.,
running thence south To the south
east corner of said 40 acre tract, said
corner being, OF having been, by gem
eral acquiescence and acceptance.
recognized as being i'm the center Of
the channel of the Boyer river at said
place, thence following the center of
the stream to a point where said CEN
ter channel interSects the south line
of the 40 acre tract, last described.
thence west on said south line To the
southwest corner OF said 4Oacre tract:
thence south on east line of the
northeast quarter of the northwest
quarter of section No. I, to a point
where said line intersects the center
of the channel of the Boyer river:
thence up stream along the center of
the channel OF said Boyer river,
through the northeast quarter OF the
northwest quarter OF section No. 4,
and across the southeast cornero of the
southeast quarter of the south
west quarter of section No IS,
and continuing along the center of
the channel of said Boyer river To
the point where said channel inter
sects the north line OF the southwest
quarter of the southeast quarter of
said section q: thence east to the place
OF beginning.
That plaintiffs title to all of the
land bounded as above stated was Oh
tanned by purchase about March J..
1913, from X. X. Brundige, who had
obtained title thereto by diverse con-
veyances and who, together with his
successive grantors have had and
held continuous, open, notorious, UNI
disputed and adverse possession of
said land under color of title and
claim Of right for more than twenty
years. And asking that certain de
fects i'm the record title of said land
and more especially i'm relation To
conveyances made by various de-
PENDANTS above named. he correct
ed, made explicit and all de
fects caused by the confusion of
names or defective descriptions. he
cured and removed.
Alleging that the unknown claim
ants are all such parties as might in
any manner have or claim or might
have at any time had, or claimed amy
interest i'm said tract or tracts OF
land or any part thereof, and all such
as would by reason of being heirs,
benetciaries or deviSees of any OF the
parties above named or in any way
interested i'm their estates. have TAX
Ell or have been entitled to any inter
est in said lands.
Alleging also that plaintiff has
made diligent search to learn the
names of such heirs, devisees OF bene-
ticiaries, but has been unable to learn
the same other than as set out above.
Said petition prays that plaintiff $
title to all of said land be established
and confirmed and that any right,
title, interest OF equity that amy OF
the defendants might have or claim
i'm and to said land, or any part there
of be extinguished and forever barred,
and that plaintiffs title thereto be
forever quoted against all such part
les, named, known and unknown, and
all such claimants and tor all such
further relief as to the court may APP
pear just and equitable.
And unless You appear thereto and
defend before noon of the second day
OF the next term of said district
court. to he commenced and held at
Logan, Iowa, on the second day of
September, 1913, default will he en-
tered against you and judgment and
decree rendered herein as prayed in
said petition, to which petition, ref
erence is made for further particulars.
M s. Meats, Plaintiff
j. S. DeweI and Ross Mclaughlin,
Attys.
On examination of the petition in
the above entitled case, it is found
that the foregoing notice is sufficient
and the same is hereby approved.
IL is further ordered that said no
tice he published once each week for
four consecutive weeks in The Mis-
souri, Valley Times, a weekly news
paper printed and published in Har-
rison County, Iowa, the last publica-
tion to be more than ten days before
the first day Of the next term OF said
district court.
Dated this 18th day of June. 1913.
Thomas Arthur,
Judge of the 18th Judicial District.
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