The St. Joseph observer. [volume] (St. Joseph, Mo.) 1906-1932, 1916-03-18
ORDER OF PUBLICATION

In the Circuit Court in and for Bu-
chanan County, Missouri May term, 1916
state OF Missouri, County of Buchanan
Leetta Adams and Ella Reed, plaintiffs
vs. Franklin Laveale Anderson and
Henry ~ Hunter, defend dants.
Now at this date come the plaintiffs
by their attorney, and file their petition
herein duly verified by affidavit in
which said petition it Is alleged. among
other things, that the above named de-
PENDANTS, Franklin Laveale Anderson and
Henry \. Hunter are both presidents
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 purporting to convey
certain real estate, situate, lying and be-
ing in the County of Buchanan and State
OF Missouri, and specifically described in
Sald petition as follows to-wit: The
West one hundred and eighteen QlS
ieet OF Lot six 90 in Block twenty C2O)
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-
page iSi and executed and delivered by
Matte Anderson and Franklin LaVcale
Anderson, her husband, to Henry \.
Hunter and the other of said deeds being
dated the 25th day of July. 1913 and
recorded IN the deed records Of Buchanan
County, Missouri. in Book 42S at page
3O2, and executed and delivered by Henry
y. Hunter TO Franklin Laveale Anderson
ana Matte Anderson, which said last
mentioned deed conveyed said real estate
to the grantees therein named as joint
Ter ria L,
second, and the further object and nature
OF said suit is to have the Court by its
judgment and decree dvest 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
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 at the time
OF the execution and delivery of said
deed from Matte Anderson and her hus-
hand 70 defendant Henry \. Hunter, said
Matte Anderson was of unsOund mind
ana wholly incompetent to execute a
valid conveyance Of the property de-
Srrlbcd in said deed, and that defendant
FRANKLIN Layeale Anderson, taking ad-
vantage Of his position as husband of
said Matte Anderson and Of the intimate
relations eNlSttIg between them as huS-
band aud wife, and taking advantage Of
her weakened mental condition for the
wrongful and fraudulent purpose Of vest
ing the title 10 said real estate in him
self upon the death Of his wife the said
Matte Anderson, and to defraud the
pIalnt!Hs herein as heirs at law of said
Matte Anderson, did by fraudulent
solicitations and persuasion and undue
influence eXcrtcd over her. induce the
Sald Matte Anderson TO execute and de-
HEer I'VE, SAID last mentioned deed. and
further that said deed of conveyance
rom defendant Henry \. Hunter to said
Franklin Laveale Anderson and Matte
Anderson was executed and delivered
pursuant 10 ana as part Of the wrong
tul and fraudulent acts and purposes Of
defendant Franklin Layeale Anderson as
aforesaid 1t being further alleged in said
petition that said Matte Anderson has
departed this life intestate. leaving sur
NlNlug her as her only heirs the above
named plaintiffs and her surviving hus-
band defendant Franklin Lavealc Ander-
son,
It is further ordered that said defend
anus, FRANKLIN Layeale 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 Nav. 1915
on or before the third day OF said term,
70 answer plaintiffs petition, the same
WI pN Ndhel lot confessed as 10 lhem
aud Judgment and decree rendered ac-
curdingly.
II is further ordered that a copy Of
this order be published in the st. Joseph
Observer, a newspaper printed and pub
llshed IN the County Of Buchanan and
state Of Missouri, for four weeks sue
eesslvely, the last insertion Of which to
be at least fifteen days before the be-
ginning Of the next May, 1916, term Of
! this Court.
ROSS c. COX,
true copy: AtteSt. Clerk.
BY EMMETT j. GROUSE,
r'ScaD .. Deputy Clerk.
Attorney TOR Plaintiffs