The Butler weekly times., 1918-03-21
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
state of Missouri, iss

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County of Bates.
In the Circuit Court. May Term, 1918
In Vacation March IA, 1918.
T. M. Hampton and Mary V. Hamp-
ton, Plaintiffs.
vs.,
The unknown heirs, devisees. donees,
| alienees, and grantees Of Jemima
Spearman, deceased; NJ. NJ. Owens, If
living. and II deceased, his unknown
sHazSs senees nsias snd asHsss: %iis
Owens, if living, and If deceased, his
unknown consort, heirs devisees,
ddonsees; dss; alienees' and grantees De-
Now at this day come the Plaintiffs
and file their petition. under oath, al
leging among other things that N. M.
owens and William Owens, if Lying
souri, and further alleging that they
verify believe there are other persons
interested in the subject matter of
their. suit. to-wit the land in their
ama and dhs and
tent Of whose interest they can not
more specifically describe for the reason
that it is to them unknown, but that
if such persons there be they derive
their interest as the unknown heirs.
devisees, donees, alienees, immediate.
mesne, or remote, voluntary or invol-
untary grantees of JemiTaSpearman.
deceased, who acquired the title to said
deed shown of record in the Bates
county, Missouri, Recorders office IN
book at page 1923, and which inter
est she did not, of record, convey to
anyone during her life time Or as the
respective unknown consort, heirs,
devisees, donees, alienees, immediate
mesne, or remote, voluntary or lnVol,
untary grantees Of NJ. M. Owens and
who acquired an interest in said prem,
ises, as reputed heirs of the aforesaid
Jemima Spearman, who got the title
lin the manner aforesaid, and which in
terest, if any they had, the said NJ. M.
Owens and william Owens, has not, or
record conveyed to any one unless by
deeds shown Of record in the aforesaid
Recorders office in Book 143 at page
lively. both Of which deeds are in.
sufficient to. convey the interests, If
any, owned by the said M. M. Owens
ana Millam owens Tor the reason sagbt tha9 t
be conveyed are defectively described.
Plaintiffs further alleging in their pc
tition that they are in the possession
All the North Half Q-2) of lots
West quarter u-D, and Twelve
and fifty-three hundredths 12'5o ~
South Half (1-2) of Lot Two (2)
of the South West quarter 1-H Of
Section eighteen (1S) Township
Forty-one HD, Range thirty 800,
Bates County. Missouri except
side of said tract,
and that they and those under. whom
they claim have been in the undisputed
possession thereof for forty years,
the absolute title. Whereup-
on it is ordered by the Clerk, in Va
cation. that said defendants be notified
by publication that plaintiffs have
a suit against them in this
court, the object and general nature OF
which is to have tried. ascertained and
the title in and to said
premises, and to have the whole title |
thereto adjudged to be vested in plain
tiffs and that defendants and all or
them are forever barred from setting |
up or claiming any interest therein
And that unless defendants be and ap-
pear at this court, at the next term |
thereof, to be begun at the court house
in Butler, Bates county, Mo-, on the
Monday in May, 1918, and on
or before the first day of said term |
plead to the petition ip said cause filed,
the same, will be taken as confessed, |
and judgment will be rendered accord
lngly.. 1t being further ordered that a |
copy hereof be published, according to
law in The Butler Weekly Times a |
published in Bates County, |
Mo-, for four weeks successfully, pub
lished at least once a week, the last in
sertion to be at least thirty days be-
fore the first day of said term of this
H. D. MAXEY,
Circuit Clerk.
A true copy from the Record.
Witness my hand and seal of
County, Missouri, this the
18th day of March, 1918.
Fl. o. MAXEY,
,3-4t Circuit Clerk.