Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-07-23

In the circuit court. september
Term, 1914.
John G.. Armstrong, Plaintiff,
Victoria J. Larkin, William A. Arm
strong, Lowell d. Armstrong, Frank
f. Armstrong, Mary T.. Winter and
John b. Graham, Defendants.
The State of Missouri to the above
named defendants Greeting:
Now, on this July -, 1914. comes
plaintiff by attorneys, Fry Il Rodgers.
and files with the Clerk of the Au-
drain County Circuit Court, in vaca-
tion, his petition and affidavit wherein
among other things plaintiff alleges
the following:
Plaintiff for his cause of action
states that he and defendants are
seized rs tenants in common of the
following: Lots, tracts or parcels Of
land to-wit: Lot two ~, in block
four az of Broodwater's Addition to
the City of Mexico, in the county of
Audrain and State of Missouri
Plaintiff further states that the
share of said lands to which he is en-
titled is an undivided one-seventh, and
the share of said lands to which each
of the defendants is entitled is an un-
divided one-seventh. Plaintiff further
says that the estate from which said
lands have descended has been finally
settled and all claims against the same
have been fully discharged.
Plaintiff prays that partition OF said
lands may be made between the par
ties plaintiff and -defendants according
to their respective interests therein,
and if partition in kind cannot be
made without great prejudice to the
owners, that the same may be ordered
sold and the proceeds divided among
said parties in proportion to their re-
spective interest , and for such other
orders DEGREES and relief as 10 the
Court may seem meet and just in the
premises.
Plaintiff further says that the de-
PENDENT Lowell ID. Armstrong is a
nonresident Of the State OF Missouri
and cannot be served with process in
this State in the manner prescribed
in chapter ~ Of The Revised Statutes
Of the State of Missouri for 1909 and
asks that said Lowell d. Armstrong
be served by publication. Wherefore
plaintiff prays for judgment and all
proper relief
1t is therefore, ordered 10y .the
Clerk of the Audrain Comfy Circuit
Court. in vacation, that said un-
known nonresident defendants be
notified that the plaintiff has begun
suit against them in the Aubrain
County Circuit Court, the object and
general nature of which il to obtain
decree of Court in partition.
1t is further ordered that said de-
PENDANTS be and appear in this Court
on the first day Of the next regular
FERN thereof to be begun and holden
at abe Court House in the City Of
Mexico, Audrain County, Missouri, on
Monday the It'll, day Of September,
1914, and on or before the first day
Of said ter5 to answer or plead to said
petition will be taken a confessed and
iudgmentby default will be rendered.
The Mexico Missouri Message, pub
ished in Mexico, Missouri, and circu-
lated in Audrain County, Missouri,
having been designated 10y the plant
in and his attorneys Of record rs the
newspaper most likely to give notice
% the defendants Of the tendency Of
4 this action. II j. ordered 10y the
Jerk in vacation that a copy Of this
order be published in said Mexico
Missouri Message once week for and
during four weeks successfully, the
asst insertion of said order in said
newspaper to he at least fifteeu day,
) before the first day Of the next regu-