The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-04-14

Layafette County, Missouri, June
Term, 1916, at Lexington.
In vacation, April 5, 1916.
Newell T. Wilcoxon-Plaintif.
VS..
The unknown heirs, c%onsort, devil
sees, donees, alienees, and immediate,
mesne, remote, voluntary and invol-
untary grantees OF assigns of Lou
Hurdell, Observation-Disclosures.
Now at this day comes the plain
tiff herein by his attorney and files
his petition and affidavit alleging
among other things that The unknown
heirs, consort, devisees, donees, alien
ees, and immediate, .mesne, remote,
voluntary and involuntary grantees
or assigns of Lou Hurdell, deceased.
are interested in the subject matter
of said petition as hereinafter set
forth and whose names he cannot in
sert because they are unknown to
him.
Whereupon it is ordered by the
Clerk in vacation as follows: To the
said defendants you are hereby Motif
ed that the plaintiff has commenced
a suit against you in this court the
object and general nature of which is
to obtain a decree to quiet title to the
property hereinafter described and to
obtain a judgment of the court de-
claring the title of the plaintiff to be
vested in him by limitation under the
provisions of Section 1884, Chapter
Fl, Article VIII of the Revised Stat.
utes Of Missouri, for 1909, to the fol.
lowing tract of land situate in Lafay.
cite County, Missouri: The east hall
of lot numbered five (5), in block
numbered Thirty-nine 1897, in the
First Addition to Lexington, Missouri
as the same is shown on the Official
plat thereof on file in the Office Of the
Recorder of Deeds within and fol
Lafayette County, Missouri, and al
leging that the title to the land EN-.
braced in said First Addition to Lex.
ington, Mo-, emnated from the United
States Government, by two patents
one dated September oath, 1921, and
conveying the northeast quarter Of
the northwest quarter of Section 33
Township 81, Range 27, Lafayette
County, Mo-, to one Wilson Owen, anC
the other Of date June 30th, 1919, anC
conveying the northeast quarter Of
the northwest quarter of Section 81
Township 81, Range 81, Lafayett,
County, Missouri, to one William Nc
Kenzie. and that title to said lane
passed, by various parties until IN,
26th day of April, 1888, on which DAFT
all that part thereof concerned in thi!
litigation was owned by J.. H. Graham
William Spratt and James Aull, anc
they, as the then owners thereof
caused a part Of said land above des.
cribed to be subdivided into lots anC
blocks, streets and alleys and haC
same plated and recorded as provid.
ed by law as an Addition to the City
Of Lexington, Lafayette County, Mis-.
souri,, and the same was, has ever
since been and now is known and cal.
led "First addition to Lexington
Missouri, and hat all the land that i,
the subject matter of this suit was q
part of the land so plated and in sale
plat became and is known and des.
ignated as "The East half of Lot mum.
bered Five, in Block numbered Thirty.
nine, in the First Addition to Licking.
ton, Missouri, and that no record con.
veyance is shown transferring the
title to said property from said J.. H
Graham, William Spratt and james
Aull, but that ON the 9th day Of April
1871, one Wiley Pool and his wifi,
conveyed said land, with other land t
one Jonathan Colcord, which deed il
Of record in Book NJ Page 128, Pub.
lie Deed Record Of Lafayette County
Missouri, and that title to same pas
sed by various conveyances Of RECORD
until the 10th day Of August 1870
when said Lot 5 was owned by onC
Elizabeth Hughes, and she conveyed
an undivided one half interest there
in to Lou Hurdell on the first day o.
February, 1872, as shown by deed rec
ord X No, L Page $40, Public Deco
Records of Lafayette County, Mo-, anc
by exchange of deeds thereafter, be
tween Elizabeth Hughes and Lou Hur
dell, said Lou Hurdell became The
owner in fee of the east of sale
Lot Number 5, as is shown by Bool
II, Page al, Public Deed Record o.
Lafayette County, Missouri, and tina,
said Lou Hurdell held the record It'll,
to said east half Of said Lot 5 from
that time until her death about tn,
year 1894, that there was no admins
t%ration of her estate, and a