Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-21
New England CraniteC
LOG South Center Street
J. c. LLOYD. Proprietor
e. G. HUeLER, Manager.
ORIGINAL NOTICE.

To George II. Jerome, Charlotte D..
Jerome. A. E. Palmer and Unknown
Claimants Of that tract OF land de-
scribed as follows:
Beginning Four "a Fee: South of
the Northeast Corner of Lot One %
of the Southwest Quarter of the
Southwest Quarter Of Seution TWEEN
ty-six (26). Township Eishty-four
go North, Range Eighteen Qs) West
of the 5th P. NJ. Marshall County. Iowa.
thence West to Section Line, thence
South Sixty (so) Feet, thence East to
East Line Of said Lot One ~, thence
North to beginning, all IN Marshall
County, Iowa.
You Are Hereby Notified, There is
now hled In the office of the Clerk Of
the District Court Of the State of Iowa,
hin and for the County of Marshall,
tie petition Of John B. Baker. whose
full name is thus given, claiming of
you and each of you. your grantees.
heirs. OF devisees if deceased, the
quietine Of the title in him of the
above described real estate in fee
simple, and that he is credibly in
formed and believes that each Of you
are making some claim adverse to his
ownership in said above described real
estate.
He further claims that the above de-
scribed real estate is part of two
acres which was conveyed by the de-
PENDANTS, George H. Jerome and Char
lotte D. Jerome, to James w. Hambel
by their certain Warranty Deed re-
corded in Book on Page 44S of the
deed records Of Marshall County,
Iowa; that the description in said deed
is as follows:
Two acres in the West Half of the
Southwest Quarter of Section 26,
Township "a. North, Of Range Is, West.
commencing at certain stake and
stone on the west line Of West Street
Gin Jerome's Addition to the Town Of
Marshal). running thence South six
chains, eighty-two and one half links,
thence West to the west line Of the
West Half of the said Southwest Quar-
ter, thence North on said West Line
six chains eighty-two and one-half
links, thence East to the point or
place Of beginning"
That the two acres above described
was afterwards subdivided by the
Auditor Of Marshall County, Iowa, and
the plat thereof was recorded in Book
on Page 50 of the records of said
County. and Lot One Of said descrip-
ton Of which the plaintiffs property
is part, was conveyed by the grantee,
James w. Hambel. and by intermediate
conveyances the property claimed by
plaintiff was conveyed to one NJ. F.
Hathaway. and by said grantee and
cient Warranty Deed to this plaintiff
on February 20, 1915. said deed being
recorded in Book 1872 on Page 443 OF
said records
It is further claimed that said plain
tiff's property is a part of the land
conveyed as aforesaid to James w.
Hambel; that Hulda G. Dean owns the
property adjoining plaintiffs lot on
the north and that Theodore A. Sieg
owns the property adjoining on the
south; that A. E. Palmer owns the
property adjoining on the west and
that strict 10 contiguous and joins
said property on the east. Each of
said adjoining owners Is made Defend
ants to assert any right or ownership.
IL any they have, in said property
claimed by plaintiff.
He further claims that he and his
grantors have held actual, open, hos
tile and adverse possession of said real
estate under claim Of right and color
Of title for more than ten years last
past, prior to the beginning Of this ac-
ton, has paid the. ordinary taxes
thereon, and that each and all of the
defendants herein are barred and
estopped including the Unknown
Claimants, from asserting any claim or
title in or to said real estate by rea-
son Of lapse Of time and the statute Of
limitations of said estate. That each
Of you be barred by decree of Court.
from asserting any : title thereto or
claim therein.
Now. unless you appear and make
defense thereto at or before noon Of
the second. day Of the next term of
laid Court. to be begun and held at
Marshalltown,s Iowa, on the 9Th day Of
September, a. IA, 1915, your default
will be entered and decree rendered
thereoa as prayed for in said petition.
Dated this 18th day Of July, A. D.
1915.
CARNEY q CARENY,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
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