The Butler weekly times., 1918-01-17

solAlC IA HAAoo0uAAS |
County of Bates. S.
In the Circuit Court of Said County
and State. February, 1913, Term. In
Vacation December 31st, 1917.
Herman Steiner, Plaintiff.
James H. Hood, John Meador, John
M. Price, Uream Beghtol, and the
unknown consorts, heirs, devisees,
donees, alienees and grantees OF
James II. Hood, John Meador, John
M. Price and Uream Beghtol, De-
PENDANTS.
Now at this day comes the plaintiff
herein by attorneys, and files his Pc
titon under oath alleging, among 9TH
er things, that the defendants, James
H. Hood, John Meador, John M.
Price and Uream Beghtol, are each
non-residents of the State of Mis-
souri, ii living, and further alleging
that he verify belives that there are
persons interested in the subject mat
ter of his petition whose names he
can not insert therein because they
are to him unln own. That such un-
known persons, If any there be, are
the unknown consorts, heirs, devisees,
donees. aliences, immediate, mesne Or
remote, voluntary or involuntary
grantees OF said James Fl. Hood,
John Meador, John M. Price and
Urcam Beghtol, if they or either of
them be deceased and would derive
their respective claims by, through or
under one or the other of the said
named persons; further alleging that
the interest of James II. Hood is dis
closed by Quit Claim Deed recorded
in Book So at Page IS in the office OF
the Recorder of Deeds in and for
Bates County, Missouri, in which said
Hood appears as grantee; That John
Meador acquired his apparent interest
in the real estate in the petition, here
matter described, by conveyance in
the records aforesaid in Book "F-I" at
Page 27S; That John M. Price .ac--
quired his apparent interest by deed
of record in Book FL at Page 279
of said records; That Uream Beghtol
by conveyance in Book "E at Page
Is of the records aforesaid, which in
terest acquired were not properly con.
veyed out or released by the said
named grantees but the nature, char
acter and extent of the interest of the
respective unknown defendants and
from whence derived can not be more
specifically described or set forth by
the plaintiff except that the same ap-
pears to be adverse and prejudicial to
the claim of the plaintiff in and to the
real estate described in his petition
as follows, to-wit:
The East one-half (E l-2) OF
Lots five and six Is & o. of the
Northeast quarter On |: 1-4) OF
Section two (2), Township thirty
nine 800, Range thirty (3o) in
Bates County, Missouri.
Whereupon it is ordered by the
clerk IN vacation that said defendants
be notified by publication, that the
plaintiff has commenced suit against
them in this court the object and gen
eral nature of which is to try, ascer-
tain and determine the respective
rights and interests of the plaintiff
and the defendants herein named in
and to the rca! estate above described
and to obtain judgment and decree
OF the court defining and declaring
the interests of the parties in and to
said real estate respectively and sew
orally thereto, the plaintiff claiming
the absolute fee simple title and un-
less the said defendants be and ap-
pear at this court at the next term
thereof to be begun and held at the
court house in the city OF Butler IN
said county ON the first Monday in
February, 1915 and on or before the
first day of said term answer or plead
to the petition in said cause the same
will be taken as confessed and judg-
ment rendered accordingly. 1t is
further ordered that 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
(SeaD seal of the Circuit Clerk OF
Bates County, Missouri,
this 31st day of December,
1917.
H. o. MAXEY,
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