The Elbert County tribune., 1919-12-19
sUMxoHs NOTICE.
STATE OF COLORADO, }

} IS
COUNTY OF ELBERT.
In The District Court.
The Matheson Land, Liye-)
stock & Mercantile Co,
Corporation, and Moses
Beach,
Plaintiffs,
No. - vs.
} Summons
George w. Pritchett and
the unknown Heirs-at }
Law, Devisees, immediate }
and remote Grantees of
George w. Pritchett, De-)
ceased,
Defendants,)
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
COLORADO.
To George W. Pritchett and the
unknown Heirs-at-law, deyisees, i'm
mediate and remote grantees of
George w. Pritchett, deceased, the
defendants above named, GREET
ING:
You are hereby required to appear
in an action brought against you
by the above named plaintiffs in the
district court of Elbert County.
State of Colorado. and answer the
complaint therein within twenty
days after the service hereof, IL
served within this county; or, II
served out of this county or by
publication, within thirty days after
the service hereof, exclusive of the
day of service; or judgement by de-
fault will be taken against you ac-
cording to the prayer of the com
plant and, II copy of the COM
plaint in the above entitled action
be not served with this summons,
or IL the service hereof be made
out of this state, then ten days adj
allowed before the taking of Judge
ment by default, as aforesaid
That said action is brought for
the purpose of quieting title to the
following described real estate in
the County of Elbert and State OF
Colorado, to-wft:
The Northwest Quarter of the
Northeast Quarter tNWA NEA
OF Section Two(2) in TOWNSHIP
Eleven (11) South Range So
West of the Sixth (6th) Princi-
pal Meridian.
Alleging, among other things, that
the interests of the above unknown
persons, If any they have, so far as
plaintiffs knowledge extends, are
described and derived as follows:
That of the unknown heirs-at-law
devisees, immediate and remote
grantees of George w. Pritchett
deceased, is such interest, If any
as George w. Pritchett derived by
patent from the United States
dated June 16, 1905, and filed sor
record in the Deed Records of Eli
bert County, Colorado, July 26,
1919, and which may have come
to them as immediate or remote
grantees OF George w. Pritchett
deceased, or by reason of the
Statutes touching descents, wills
and administrations of the State
of Colorado.
And that said action is brought by
aaid plaintiffs, praying:
1.-That the defendants above
named and designated, and each
of them, be required to appear in
this action and set forth the ma
ture and extent of their claims. il
any they have. in and to said
real estate and premises, or any
part thereof, that the validity
thereof may be adjuged and de-
termined by the Court.
2.-That the Court, upon the FL
ling of this complaint, or in due
season thereafter, make an order
for the publication of the sum-
mons in this action as against all
7 of the defendants designated as
unknown" or whose names are
not given, as provided by the
Statutes of the State of Colorado,
in such cases made and provided.
3.-That, upon the final hearing
of this cause, it may be adjudged
and decreed by the Court that
neither the defendants, nor any of
them, have any valid claim, inter
est, property or estate in said
real estate and premises, or any
part thereof, but that the plain
tiffs are the owners in fee simple
and in possession thereof.
4-That said title In fee simnla