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

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. devisees, inn
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, If
served within this county: or. If
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, If a 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 ad-
ditional to the time herein Will be
allowed before the taking of judge
ment by default, as aforesaid.
That said action is brought for
following described real estate in
the County of Elbert and State of
Colorado, to-wit:
The Northwest Quarter of the
Northeast Quarter (NWA NEi4 }
OF Section Twot2) in Township
Eleven CID South Range So
West OF the Sixth (6th) Princi-
pal Meridian.
Alleging, among other things, that
the interests of the above unknown
persons, II 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 FOR
record in the Deed Records of Ell
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
said 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, if
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
ing of this complaint, or in due
season thereafter, make an order
for the publication of the sum
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. 1t 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
tffs are the owners in fee simple
and in possession thereof.
4.-That said title in fee simple
to said real estate and premises
be henceforth quieted and forever
set at rest in the plaintiffs, and
5.-For all proper relief. as will
more fully appear from the COM
plant in said action, to which ref