Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1918-11-08
STATE or VERMONT
ADDISON COUNTY, ss.
4EWIs j, DAMN AbmsON
vs., COUNTY


LEWIS j, DAMN AnnsON
vs., COukTY
MARY A, MURRAY ct ais, COURT
Whereas the said Lewis ], Damn Of
Charlotte in the state Of Michigan has
brought his petition for the partition
OF certain land in Orwell Vermont, 10
the Addison County Court next 10 10
held at Middlebury within and for the
county OF Addison on the first Tuesday
OF December 1918, against Mary A.
Murray, Henry Todd and Walter ii.
upper, all Of Burlington in the county
OF Chittenden Arthur Brown Of Plain
well IN the state Of Michigan, a sister
OF the said Arthur Blown, said 10 reside
in hesitate Of New YORK, name unknown;
another sister Of the said Arthur Brown,
said to reside IN the state Of Montana,
name unknown stil another sister of
the said Arthur Brown, name aud resi-
dence unkn0wn;and the widow aud six
minor children OF the deceased brother
OF the said Arthur Brown, names aud
residences unknown, therein setting
forth in substance
That the petitioner is the owner OF
one equal undivided twelfth part Of a
certain parcel Of land in Orwell ia tho
county OF Addison, described as fol-
lOws;-
The old Murray farm, so-callcd, with
dwelling house and other buildings
, thereon, situated in the north-easterly
part OF said Orwell and consisting Of
200 acres Of land, more or less, said
farm being the same condltionally con-
veyed to Sealand and Emily Murray
from Daniel Murray and wife by deed
dated April I, 1857 and recorded IN the
land records Of said Orwell in Book IA
at page 3jl; and said parcel being now
bounded northerly by lands of Dan
Cain and Mrs Dana Brown; easterly.
by lands Of Henry Clay Brown; south
erly, by lands owned by Fred Graft or
wife; and westerly, by lands Of John
Ryan, and being located on both sides
Of the highway leading southerly from
Shoreham, Vermont, depot
That said parcel is held in common
with the following named persons own
ing the respective shares stated so far
as known to the petitioner; Forty
three equal undivided seventy second
parts, by Mary A, Murray Of Burling-
ton, Vermont; nine equal undivided
seventy.second parts, by Henry Todd
OF said Burlington; nine equal undivi-
ded seventy-second parts, by Walter II.
Topper OF said Burlington; one equal
undivided Seventy-second part, by Ar
thur Brown of Plainwel, MichiganS
one equal undivided seventy second
part, by a sister of said Arthur Brown,
name unknown said to reside in The
state of New York one equal undivided
seventy-second part by another sister
of the said Arthur Brown name I'M
known, said to reside in the state OF
Montana one equal undivided seventy
second part by still another sister OF
the said Arthur Brown, name and resi-
dence unknown and one equal UNI
divided seventy second part by and
among the widow and six minor chill
dren of a deceased brother of the said
Arthur Brown; and that none of said
adverse parties who reside without the
state or whose residences are unknown
has any known agent or attorney with
in the state
AND IT APPEARING that the
residences of the petitioners Arthur
Brown, his said three sisters and said
widow and six minor children of de-
ceased brother of the said Arthur
Brown are without the state of YER
mont so that this petition cannot be
served upon them, and that none OF
them has any known agent or attorney
within the state, 1T IS ORDERED
that they be summoned to appear and
answer said petition on or before the
first Tuesday of December, 1918, by
the publication OF the substance OF
said petition, together with this order
in the Middlebury Register, public
newspaper published at Middlebury in
said county of Addison, three weeks sue
cessively, the last of which publications
to be at least twenty days prior to
said first Tuesday of December, 1918.
Dated at Middlebury in said county
of Addison this 23rd day of October,
1915
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Clerk.
LEROY C. RUSSELL, Atty for petitioner.