The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-12-20
Order of Publication.

Order of Publication.
State OF Missouri,
County Of Bates, S.
In the Circuit Court of said county
and state. February, 1918, Term. In
Vacation, December 4, 1917.
Joseph F. Bedinger, Plaintiff.
VS..
The unknown consorts, heirs, devil
sees, donees, alienees, immediate,
mesne or remote, voluntary or i'll
voluntary grantees OF John T. Mil
len, deceased, of Joel Abbott, de-
ceased, of Sarah A. Ogle, deceased,
and of Alfred T. Badgley, de-
ceased, defendants.
Now at this day comes the plaintiff
herein by his attorneys and files his
petition under oath, alleging, among
other things, that he verify believes
there are persons interested in the
subject matter of this suit, whose
names he can not set forth in his pc.
tition because they are unknown to
him. That such persons are the con-
sorts, heirs, devisees, donees, alienees,
immediate, mesne or remote, volun-
tary or involuntary grantees of John
T. Millen, deceased, of Joel Abbott,
deceased, and of Sarah A. Ogle, de-
ceased, and of Alfred +. Badgley, de-
ceased. The said John T. Millen hav-
ing entered portion of the herein.
after described real estate and OBJ
tanned the title thereto from the Unit
ed States government about the year
1855, as shown by the plat book of
original entries on file in the office
of the Recorder of Deeds in Bates
county, Missouri, and did not convey
the same in his life time. That the
interest of Joel Abbott, deceased, is
derived by and through tax deed
which Is Of record in Book No. I, at
Page S, office aforesaid, dated in
1867. The interest of the said Sarah
A. Ogle, now deceased, was inherit ,
ed by her as one of the heirs at law
of Alfred T. Badgley, who died in
testate in Bates County, Missouri,
about the year 1901, which interest
she did not fully convey in her life
time The said Alfred T. Radgley,
deceased, acquired title to the real es-
tate mentioned in the petition and
hereinafter described by four deeds
recorded respectively in Book 70, at
Page I52. Book Y, No. l., at Page
0o4, Book s., at Pages oa and 200, re-
spectively, i'll the office OF the record
er of deeds aforesaid Said Alfred I.
Badgley not having conveyed the real
estate thus acquired in his. life time.
And further avcrring that the inter-
ests of the unknown defendants and
whence the same is derived can not
be more specifically described or set
forth i'll the petition except that such
interests appear to be adverse and
prejudicial to the title of plaintiff,
who claims the title in fee as to all
the land hereinafter described.
Whereupon, it is ordered by the
clerk, in vacation, that the defend
ants be notified by publication that
the plaintiff has commenced suit
against them in this court. the object
and general nature of which is to OBJ
tain a judgment and decree of the
court, establishing the title, estate
and interests of the parties respect
lively, plaintiff and defendants, herein
severally, in and to the following de-
scribed real estate. to-wit:
The West half of the Northwest
quarter of Section twenty eight
(oS), and the East half of the
, Northeast quarter of Section
twenty-nine (oo), all in Township
forty (4o) of Range -thirty-one
in Bates County, Missouri, +
to the end that the title of plaintiff
in and to said land may be quoted
and set at rest, and unless the de-
PENDANTS be and appear at the next I
term of this court, to be held at the
court house in the city of Butler in
said county on or before the first
Monday in February, 1918, and on or
before the first day. of said term an
swer or plead to the petition filed, the
same will be taken as confessed and
judgment rendered accordingly.
And it is further ordered that q copy
hereof be published according to law
in The Butler Weekly Times. /;
H. o. MAXEY,
Circuit Clerk.
A true copy from the record.
Witness my hand and the
(Seal) seal of the Circuit Court Of
Bates County, this lth day
of December, 1917. l.!
H. o. MAXEY,