The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1918-03-29
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
STATE OF MISSOURI,

STATE Of
County of Lafayette-ss.
In the Circuit Court of Lafayette
County, Missouri, June term, 1918, at
Lexington. In vacation, March 18th,
1918.
Louis Frerking . Plaintiff
rs.
The Unknown consorts, heirs, devil
sees, donees, alienees, and immediate,
mesne or remote, voluntary or invol-
untary grantees of Anselem Har-
grave, deceased. ...~ Defendants
Now at this day comes the Plain
Tiff herein by his attorney, Thomas
A. Walker, and files his petition, du-
y verified by the affidavit of plaintiff,
alleging that the places Of residence
of the defendants are unknown to
plaintiff and that they a not be serv-
ed with the ordinary process of law
as provided by the Statutes.
Plaintiff further states that he IL
the owner and in the lawful possess
ion of the following described real
estate situated in Lafayette County
Missouri, to-wit: Thirty acres off of
the west side of the North west quar-
ter Of the south west quarter of sec
tion nineteen, township forty-eight,
range 't~wenty-four.
That the plaintiff and those under
whom he claims title to said land
have been in the open, notorious, con
tinuous, adverse, interrupted, qus
peaceable and exclusive possession @.
said land, claiming title thereto an,
ownership thereof and paying take.
thereon for more than thirty-ou.
years consecutively next before th.
filing of this petition and the instl
tuition of this suit, and that none o
the defendants, nor any person unde.
whom they claim or might claim It'll,
thereto have been in possession o
said land or paid any taxes thereof
, within thirty-one years next befor
J the filing of this petition, nor has an,
of the defendants or any person un
' der whom they claim or might clair
title thereto brought any action to re
cover said land or enforce any claim
, or interest in or to the same With.
2 one year after the expiration 0
thirty years after the right to brin
L such action accrued. Plaintiff state
that the title to said real estate, bot
legal and equitable emanated froI
the United States Government NOR
than thirty-one years next before tn
filing Of this suit and that the It'll
to the same has vested in plainti
t and those under whom he claims tit.
. by limitations in accordance with til
a provisions Of the Statute Law Of II
State of Missouri. and particular
under and by virtue Of section 1875
Z of the Revised Statutes Of Nilsson
= for the year 1909.
4 Plaintiff states that there are
!, that he verify believes there are pc
l. sons interested in or who claim to
interested in the subject matter
this suit, whose names he can not i
J sert herein because they are unknov
to him and whom he can not furthl
describe than as the unknown co
"a sorts, heirs, devisees, donees, alienel
and immediate, mesne or remote, vc
untary or involuntary grantees
" Anselem Hargrave, deceased, al
m which unknown ~consorts, heirs, d
nees, devisees, a~lienees, and immed
ate, mense, or remote, voluntary
Involuntary grantees Of said Ansele
Hargrave, deceased, derive or clai
a. to derive title to said land or mig
w appear to have some interest in sa
land through a warranty deed fro
IS William Harrington and wife to sa
Anselem Hargrave, Of date Augu
(. 22nd, 1910, and found Of record
g Book &c" at Page TOP, Recorder
A Ofice for Lafayette County, Nilsson
and plaintiff states that said Ans
lem Hargrave died many years az
without ever having conveyed sa
land and he can not state Just VIII
fright, title or interest said unkno,
ar parties claim or might claim, b
whatever right, lite or interest tn
;" have or make to said premises is d
If verse and prejudicial to the intere
Of plaintiff in said land.
Plaintiff states that this petit
2. contains as full, correct and compile
recital and description OF the clair
Of defendants and how such claii