The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-04-07

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In the Circuit Court of Lafayette
County, Missouri, at Lexington, June,
Term, 1916. In vacation, April A,
1916.
Lena c. Wilcoxon-Plaintiff
VS..
Maria McClanahan, if living, and
if she be dead, then the unknown
heirs, consort, d%evisees, donees, alien
ees, and immediate, mesne, remote,
voluntary and involuntary grantees or
assigns of Maria McClanahan, deceas-
ed, Albert j. Mechanism, if
living, and if he be dead, then the I'M
known heirs, consort, devisees, donees,
alienees, and immediate, mesne, re-
mote, voluntary and involuntary
grantees or assigns of Albert ]. Nc
Clanahan, Observation-Disclosures.
Now at this day comes the plain
tiff herein by her attorney and files
her petition and affidavit alleging
among other things that defendants
Maria McClanahan, if living, and if
she be dead, then the unknown heirs.
consort, devisees, donees, alienees, and
immediate, mesne, remote, voluntary
and involuntary grantees or assigns
of Maria McClanahan, deceased, AL
bert j. McClanahan, if living, and if
he be dead, then the unknown heirs,
consort, devisees, donees, alienees, and
immediate, mesne, remote, voluntary
and involuntary grantees or assigns
Of Albert j. McClanahan, deceased,
are interested in the subject matter
of said petition as hereinafter set
forth and whose names she cannot in
sert because they are unknown to her.
Whereupon it is ordered by the
Clerk in vacation as follows: To the
said defendants, you are hereby mott
fed 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
declaring the title of the plaintiff
to be vested in her by limitation un-
der the provisions of Section 1884,
Chapter 81, Article VIII of the Revis-
ed Statutes of Missouri, for 1909, to
the following tract of land situate in
Lafayette County, Missouri: A part
of block Numbered Four az, in Nc
Girk's Addition to the City of Lex
ington, Missouri, described as follows,
to-wit: Beginning at the northwest
corner of said block Numbered Four
(4), in McGirk's Addition to the City
Of Lexington, Missouri, thence east
along the northern boundary line of
said block 100 feet to a point; thence
due south through said block to the
northern boundary line of Ridgeway
Street; thence southwest along the
southern boundary line of said block
to the intersection point of the north
boundary lines of said Ridgeway
Street and Branch Street; thence
west along the northern boundary
line of said Branch Street to the
southwest corner of said block Four
az; thence north along the western
boundary line of said block Four, 300
feet to the place of beginning, as same
are shown on the official plat thereof
on file in the Office of the Recorder of
Deeds within and for Lafayette
County, Missouri, and alleging that
on the 30th day of June, 1919, the
title to the northeast quarter of Sec
ton 33, Township 81, Range 81, La
fayette County, Missouri, was convey
ed by the United States, by patent.
to n VIM. Mckenzie and title there.
, to passed, by various conveyances OF
/, record in succeeding years until the
/ year 1852, at which time, as the ther
owners thereof Isaac M. McGirk
David B. McGirk and Maria McGirI
r plated a part of said northeast
) quarter of said section 80, Township
l 81, Range 81, into lots and blocks anC
! had same plated and recorded as pro
vided by law as an Addition to the Cit
Of Lexington, Missouri, and the sam,
was, has eve since been and now il
known and called "McGirk's Addition
to the City of Lexington, Missouri
and that all the land that is the sub
> ject matter of this suit was original,
a part of said northeast quarter o
said Section 33, and was known an.
designated on said plat as "Block Fou
t4) of McGirk's addition to Lexington
Missouri, and all of the land embrace
and included is said block -Four of sal
Addition was at the time sam
was plated the property Of Mari
McGirk, as is shown by said plat q
record in Plat book l at Page s, Pull
lie Deed Records Of Lafayette Count,
y Missouri that after fling said plat 3
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