Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-10
ORIGINAL NOTICE.
In the District Court of the State of
Iowa in and for Winneshiek
COonty. April Term, 1920.

Gideon Seegmiller and w. H.
Holmes, Plaintiffs.
VS..
The Unknown Claimants of the
South Eighty Feet Is. Soft
off Lot Thirty-two and One-half
(32R) of the Subdivision OF
the Northeast Quarter of the
Southeast Quarter (NEA
SEA) of Section Sixteen (16)
Township Ninety-eight (9S)
North of Range Eight (S) West
of the 9Th p. NJ. in Winneshiek
County, Iowa, according TO the
recorded plat thereof filed
March 20, 1891. in Book ''A'
OF Town Plats on Page 220;
also commencing at point
Three Hundred Five (305) feet
North of the Northeast Corner
of Lot One "a Block One Cd
Original DEBORAH, Iowa, thence
running West parallel with the
South line of said Lot Thirty
two and One-half (S21a) of the
Subdivision of the Northeast
Quarter of the Southeast Quar-
ter (NEA SEA- of Section
Sixteen (16) Township Ninety
eight (9S) North of Range
Eight 60 West of the 9TH p.
NJ. in Winneshiek County, Iowa,
according to the recorded plat
thereof filed March 20, 1891 in
Book "a" of Town Plats page
22O; a distance of One Humid
red Thirty-eight G3S) feet,
thence Northeast about One
Hundred Seventy-eight (178l
feet to point One Hundred
Sixteen (116) feet directly
north of beginning, thence
South to place of beginning,
and. E. H. Keys and Mrs. E. H.
Keys his wife, John NJ. Barthol
and Martha Barthol his wife,
John George Barthell, John w.
Barthell. Howard f. Barthell
and Mathilda Barthell his wife,
Sophia A. Barthell, Harriet L
Barthell Charles +. Barthell.
Ida NJ. Barthell, and Sophia W.
Barthell, Defendants.
To the defendants above named,
Known and unknown:
You and each of you are hereby
Notified that there is now on file in
he Office of the Clerk of the District
Lourt of Winneshiek County, Iowa,
he petition of Gideon Seegmiller
and w. III. Holmes, as plaintiffs in
which the plaintiff Gideon Seeg-
miller alleges that he is the absolute
owner in fee simple of the following
described real estate, to-wit The
south Eighty Feet Is. so ft.) off Lot
Thirty-two and One-half (3212) of
he Subdivision of the Northeast
Quarter of the Southeast Quarteg
(NEA SEA OF Section Sixteen
(16) Township Ninety-eight (9S)
North of Range Eight 90 West OF
the 9Th p. NJ. in Winneshiek County
Iowa, according to the recorded plat
thereof, filed March 20, 1891, in
Book "A" of Town Plats on page
220; and the plaintiff w. H. Holmes
alleges that he is the owner in fec
simple of the following described
real estate to-wit: Commencing at
a point Three Hundred Five (305)
feet North of the Northeast corner
Of Lot | "a Block Cd Original De-
torah, Iowa, thence running West
parallel with the South line of said
Lot Thirty-two and One-half (32 ~
Of the Subdivision of the Northeast
Quarter of the Southeast Quarter
tNEA sen of Section Sixteen
(16) Township Ninety-eight (98)
North of Range Eight go West of
the 9Th p. M. in Winneshiek County,
Iowa, according to the recorded plat
thereof filed March 20. 1891 in Book
"A" of Town Plats page 900, dis
lance of One Hundred Thirty-eight
(13S) feet, thence Northeast about
One Hundred Seventy-eight 17S(
feet to a point One Hundred Sixteen
(116) feet directly North of Begin
ming, thence South to place of begin
ming; and that YOU make some
claim adverse to the estates OF the
plaintiffs in and to their respective
premises, and that the claims of the
claimants arises as heirs
At law, devisees, legatees, successors.
and surviving spouces OF
one or more of the defendants above
or in some other manner un-
known to the plaintiffs, and that the
plaintiffs cannot state more specih-
cally the nature or extent or the
claims of the defendants, known or
plaintiffs allege, each and
for himself, that he and his grantors
have been in open, exclusive, motor
ous, and adverse possession of all
Of his said real estate under color OF
title and claim of right for more
han ten years last past; and that
whatever claim or interest the de-
known or unknown, may
have had or may claim to have in or
to said premises, or TO any part
thereof. is fully barred by the
statute of limitations; and that the
names and residences of the un-
Known claimants are unknown TO
the plaintiffs 'lthough they haze
sought diligently to learn the same
plaintiffs ask that their relncctive
titles TO said PREMISES 80 against the
claims of the defendants, known q