Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-08-26

In the Circuit Court OF Iron County, Mis-
sour, in Vacation, July p, 1915.
The State OF Missouri, at the relation and
to the use of B. P. Burnham, Collector
OF the Revenue of Iron County, Mis-
souri,,
against
Robert Plant, if living: or the unknown
heirs and devisees of Robert Plant, if
he be dead, defendants.
(Action to Enforce Lien for TaXes.)
Now at this day comes the plaintiff, B..
P. Burnham, Collector of the Revenue OF
Iron County, Missouri, and files his
petition and affidavit, setting forth
among other things, that the defendant,
Robert Plant, is a nonresident OF the
State of Missouri, and that he cannot
be served with summons in said State.
Plaintiff states that the defendant,
Robert Plant, has not been heard offor
many years; that plaintiff is not informed
whether he be living Or dead; that if
he be dead his heirs, or if he died
leaving a will, his devisees, are in
terested in the subject matter of this
petition; that the names of such heirs or
devisees, or both, cannot be inserted
herein because they are unknown to
plaintiff; that the said Robert Plant
was the record owner of the land describ-
ed herein, but plaintiff has no information
except as herein stated of the nature Of
the interest and estate in said land owned
by said Robert Plant and therefore
is un lble to particularly describe the
same, and that in the event of the death
of the said Robert Plant, his said
heirs and d~evisees have, ny descent or
devise, succeeded to the said interest and
estate OF the said Robert Plant from
whom his interest in the property herein
described is derived. 1t is, therefore,
ordered by the Clerk of the Circuit Court
Of Iron County, Missouri, in vacation,
disqualification be made notifying said
defendant that an action has been ccm-
menced against him in the Circuit Court
OF said County, the object and general
nature OF which is to enforce the lien Of
the State OF Missouri on the following
real estate, belonging to the said de.
fendant for back taxes for the years
1911, 1912 and 1913, to wit;
The northwest quarter OF the northeast
quarter of section I6, township 80, north,
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Missouri.
Gan itemized statement in the nature
of a tax bill showing the amount of taxes,
interest and costs now due on said real
estate for the years aforesaid, amounting
in the aggregate to the sum of Six
and seventy-six one-hundredths Dollars,
is filed with said petition as provided by
law.)
And unless they be and appear at the
next term of said Court to be holden for
the County of Iron, and State of Mis-
souri,, at the Court House IN said County
IN the fourth Monday in October next,
1915, and on or before the third day
thereof (f the term shall so long con-
tinue; and, if not, then before the end of
the term), and plead, answer or demur
to said plaintiffs petition, the same will
be taken as confessed, judgment render
ed in accordance with the prayer Of said
petition, and said real estate, or so much
thereof as may be necessary to satisfy
said judgment, interest and costs, be
sold under a special fieri facias to be
issued thereon.
1t is further ordered that a copy hereof
be published according to law in the IRON
COUNTY REGISTER, a, weekly newspaper
published in said County OF Iron, and
State OF Missouri.
JESSE M. HAWKINS,
Circuit Clerk,
A true copy from the record:
Witness my hand and official seal, this
[sEALl 22d day Of July, 1915.
JESSE M. HAWKINS, Clerk
Circuit Court, Iron County, Mo.