The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1916-04-08
ORDER OF PUBLICATION


In the Circuit Cour. IN and for Blu
chanan County, Missouri. May term. 1916
state of Missouri, County of Buchanan
SIS.
Leetta Adams and Ella Reed plaintiffs
VS. Franklin Laveale Anderson and
Henry a. Hunter. defendants.
Now at this date come the plaintiffs
by their attorney, and file their petition
herein duly verified by affidavit. in
which said petition 1t Is alleged among
PENDANTS, Franklin Laveale Anderson and
Henry A. Hunter. are both non residents
OF the state OF Missouri, and that the
ordinary process of law cannot be served
upon them in this state. 1t is therefore
now here ordered by the undersigned
Clerk of the Circuit Court Of Buchanan
County, Missouri, in vacation, that said
non resident defendants be notified by
publication as required by law. that
plaintiffs have commenced their suit in
said court against said defendants by
petition and affidavit the object and
general nature of which is as follows:
First to have the Court set aside and
adjudge and decree void and of no effect
two certain deeds purportug to convey
certain real estate, situate. lying and be-
ing in the County of Buchanan and state
OF Missouri. and specifically described in
said petition as follows. to-wit: The
West one hundred and eighteen QlS)
feet of Lot six (6) in Block twenty (2O)
Of Robidoux's Addition. an addition to
the City of st. Joseph. Missouri. one OF
said deeds being dated July Sth, 1913
and recorded in the deed records of Bu.
chanan County, Missouri, in Book 427 at
page iSl and executed and delivered by
Matte Anderson and franklin Laveale
Anderson. her husband. to Henry A.
Hunter and the other of said deeds being
dated the 25th day of July, 1918, and
recorded in the deed records Of Buchanan
County, Missouri, in Book 42S at page
jO2, and executed and delivered by Henry
y. Hunter to Franklin Laveale Anderson
and Matte Anderson. which said last
mentioned deed conveyed said real estate
to the grantees therein named as joint
tenants with the right of survivorship;
second, and the further object and nature
OF said suit is to have the Court by its
judgment and decree divest the title to
an undivided one-half of the above de-
sCribed real estate out of defendant
Franklin Laveale Anderson and vest the
same In plaintiffs in said suit: and third.
in said petition said plaintiffs ask for
such other and further relief as to the
Court may seem right, it being asked in
said petition that said deeds be set aside.
and said title divested out of defendant
Franklin Laveale Anderson and vested in
plaintiffs, and other relief granted to
plaintiffs. all as hereinbefore stated on
the ground that both the aforesaid deeds
were executed without any consideration
whatever therefor, and that al the time
of the execution and delivery of said
deed from Matte Anderson and her hus-
band to defendant Henry a Hunter. said
Matte Anderson was Of unSOund mind
and wholly incompetent to execute a
valid conveyance of the property de-
scribed in said deed, and that defendant
Franklin LaVeale Anderson. taking ad
vantage of his position as husband of
| said Matte Anderson and Of the intimate
relations existing between them as hus-
band and wife, and taking advantage Of
her weakened mental condition for the
wrongful and fraudulent purpose Of vest
ing the title to said real estate in him.
self upon the death of his wife, the said
Matte Anderson, and to defraud the
plaintiffs herein heirs at law of said
Matte Anderson. did by fraudulent
solicitations and persuasion and undue
influence eXerted over her induce the
said Matte Anderson to execute and de-
liver said last mentioned deed. and
further that said deed of conveyance
Franklin Laveale Anderson and Matte
Anderson was executed and delivered
pursuant to and as part of the wrong
ful and fraudulent acts and purposes of
defendant Franklin Laveale Anderson as
aforesaid; it being further alleged in said
petition that said Matte Anderson has
viving her as her only heirs the above
named plaintiffs and her surviving hus-
band. defendant Franklin Laveale Ander-
| son.
ants, Franklin Laveale Anderson and
| Henry \. Hunter, be further notified that
| unless they shall be and appear at the
| next term Of said circuit court to be be-
gun and held at the Court House in the
City of st. Joseph, Buchanan County,
| Missouri, on the first day of May, 1916,
on or before the third day of said term,
TO answer plaintiffs petition, the same
will be taken for confessed as to them
md judgment and decree rendered ac-
cordingly
II is further ordered that a copy Of
this order be published in the St Joseph
Observer. a newspaper printed and pub
.ished in the County of Buchanan and
state of Missouri. for four weeks sue
cessively, the last insertion of which to
ne at least fifteen days before the be-
ginning of the next May, 1916, term Of
| this Court.
ROSS c. cox,
! y true copy: Attest. Clerk
/ BY EMMETT ]. GROUSE,
! (SeaD Deputy Clerk
! JOHN \. CON\ETT,
Attorney Tor Plaintiffs.