Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1915-01-20
ORIGINAL NOTICE.

To Louis E. Wren, Mrs. Louis E.
Wren, his wife; Mrs. Henry Craw-
ford, Henry Crowford, her hus-
band, Milwaukee & Prairie du
Chen Railroad Company; John
Crawford, Mrs. John Crawford, his
wife; David McAlpin, Mrs. David
McAlpin, his wife; Prairie du
Chen & Cedar Valley Railroad
Company, and the unknown heirs
and grantees of each of the above
named defendants, and the un-
known claimants and owners of
the following described real estate
tOwit: that part of the south
west quarter and of the west fifty
acres of the north half of the
southeast quarter all of section
80, township SO north, range 9
west of the 5th P. M. in Winnie
shiek county, Iowa, south of the
railroad right of way, Defendants.
You are each hereby notified that
On or before the 10Th day of Janu-
airy, 1915, there will be on file in the
office of the clerk of the district
court Of Iowa, in and for Winneshiek
county, at DEBORAH, Iowa, the petit
ton in equity of Margery j. Craw-
ford, plaintiff, claiming to be the
absolute owner in fee simple of all
of the above described real estate:
that plaintiff and her grantors have
been in actual, open, notorious, ex-
elusive, continuous, visible, uninter-
|rupted and adverse possession of the
above described real estate for more
than ten years last past, under claim
of right and color of title, claiming
absolute title of said real estate as
against the whole world; that plain
tiff is credibly informed and believes
that the defendants make some claim
adverse to the estate of the plaintiff
in said real estate; the plaintiff
states the interests which the various
parties defendant claim to have and
the manner in which the same is
claimed to have been derived as fol-
lows, towit:
Louis E. Wren obtained title to a
part of said real estate but in con-
veying the same he wrote his name
as Lewis E. Wren. Louis E. Wren
and Lewis E. Wren is one and the
same person.
On September %, 1854, Henry
Crawford executed a deed to a part
of said real estate and no wife join
ed him in such execution and there
is no recital as to his having a wife
at the time. He did not have a wife
at the time.
Defendants Milwaukee & Prairie
du Chen Railroad Company and
Prairie du Chen & Cedar Valley
Railroad Company each have receiv-
ed to adjoining real estate and each
of the deeds are so indefinite as to
make it impossible to tell if they
cover any part of said real estate.
No one of said deeds related to or
covered any part of the real estate
in question herein.
Defendant David McAlpin received
and caused to be recorded deed to
a part of said real estate but his
grantor never owned any interest II
the land conveyed, therefore said
deed is null and void.
On March /, 1859, John Craw-
ford in conveying part of said real
estate to Henry Crawford by error
and mistake misdescribed the same
as being in different township and
range than it really was located in,
and plaintiff asks a reformation Of
said deed to conform to the then in
tention of the parties.
That If there are any other I'M
known claimants or owners of said
real estate except as above set out
then the owners and claimants of the
same are unknown to plaintiff al
though she has sought diligently to
learn the names and residences of
such unknown heirs and claimants:
that all of the right title and inter-
est which either of the defendants
ever had in and to any part of said
premises has long since been barred
by the statute of limitations and lost
by adverse possession.
Upon the foregoing facts plaintiff
asks that it be ordered, adjudged
and decreed that the title and estate
of the plaintiff in and to all of the
real property hereinbefore described
be established in plaintiff and
against the adverse claims of all de-
PENDANTS to this action and all per-
sons claiming by or through them or
either of them be barred and forever
estopped from having or claiming
any Title duNSlSc " the pldlutiN III
and to any of said premises and that
the title thereto be quoted in plain
tiff, and that any of defendants in
any way contesting plaintiffs title
as above alleged be adjudged to pay
the costs of this proceeding; plain
tiff also asks judgment for such
other and further relief as may be
equitable in the premises.
And unless you appear thereto
and defend on or before noon of the
second day of the next February,
1915, term of said court, to be held
in DEBORAH, Iowa, in and for Winnie
shiek County, commencing on Mon
day, the LIST day OF February, 1915,
default will be entered against you.
and judgment and decree rendered
thereon in accordance with the
prayer Of said petition. 52-4w
Il. w. CUTTING,
AttOrnav for Dlaiutiff