The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1922-09-08
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
TATE OF MISSOURI

SOONl1 Ot IAFA1EITE-ss,
In the Circuit Court Of LAFAYETTE
County, Missouri, October Term, 1922.
AZ Lexington, in vacation, July 9th,
Ferdinand G. Plaintiff
VS..
Henry F. Powling If living, or if
dead, his unknown heirs, consorts,
devisees, donees alienees, immedi-
ate, mesne, or remote, voluntary or
Involuntary grantees, Executors or
administrators ~---........- Defendants.
Now at this day comes the plain
tif by his attorney, Thomas A. Walk
er, and files his petition in suit here
IN, duly verified by the affidavit Of
Thomas A. Walker, his attorney and
agent, alleging among other things
that the defendant Henry F. Powling,
II alive, is a nonresident of the
State OF Missouri, and that the places
OF residence of the unknown defend
ants are unknown to him and that
they can not be served with the or
binary process of law as required by
the Statutes of the State of Missou-
ri, and prays for an order of pub
LEGATION against them. Plaintiff fur
Their states that he is the owner of
and in the lawful possession Of the
following described real estate, to-
wit: The southwest quarter Of the
southeast quarter of Section thirty
two, Township forty-nine, Range
twenty-four, in Lafayette County,
Missouri. Plaintiff alleges that If
the said Henry F. Powling be dead,
then there are, or plaintiff verify be-
lieves there are persons interested in
the subject matter Of this suit, whose
names can not be inserted herein
because they are unknown to plain.
TIN, and whom plaintiff can not fur
Their describe than as being the un-
known, heirs ~consorts, devisees. do.
nees, alienees, or immediate, mesne
or remote, voluntary or involuntary
grantees Of said Henry F. Powling
If he be dead, and that the interest
OF such persons and how derived as
far as the knowledge Of plaintiff ex.
tends is truly described as follows
viz: that said land was formerly
owned by Henry +. Powling, who en-.
tered said land from the United
States Government, May 18th, 1841
and a patent was issued to him MAY
LIST, l843, a certified o of sale
patent being recorded in the Office o.
the recorder Of deeds for Lafayette
County, Missouri in Book 257 al
Page III and that said Henry f
Powling has never conveyed said lane
to any one by that name, and thai
II the said Henry +. Powling be dead
his unknown heirs, consorts, devi
sees, donees, a~lienees, immediate
mesne or remote, voluntary or invol
untary grantees, executors or admin
istrators claim or might claim an in
terest or right in said land, by rea
son Of said patent, plaintiff further
states that the said Henry F. Powl
ing, if alive, claims or might CLAIM
an interest or right in said land BY
reason Of said patent wherein he i
the patentee.
Plaintiff further states that he an,
those under whom he claims hav,
been in the open, notorious, exclusive
continuous, adverse, quiet and peace
able possession of said real estat
for more than 30 years paying take
thereon and claiming title thereto.
Plaintiff further states that the de
PENDANTS and each of them claim an
assert title to the aforesaid real es
tate and that the claims Of said de
PENDANTS are adverse and prejudicia
to the title and interest Of plaintiff
in said real estate. Plaintiff state
that his petition contains as full, cor
rect and complete a recital and dc
scription Of the claims of said dc
PENDANTS and how such claims are de
rived as the same are known to plain
tiff. Therefore by reason of th
premises plaintiff prays the Court t
try and ascertain and determine tn
estate, title, and interest of plaintiff
and defendants herein respectivel
in and to said real estate and to de
fine and adjudge by its judgment an
decree the title, estate and intere:
of the parties ~severally in and to sal
real estate and the plaintiff pray
the court to hear, and finally deter
mine any and ali rights, claims an
interest, liens and demands Of II
parties or Of anyone Of them, concern
ing or affecting said real estate an
that the court will award full an
complete relief, whether legal or &c
uitable to the several parties and 1
each of them according to the sta.
utes in such cases made and provide
and for all other and further relief
It is therefore ordered by Il
Clerk of the Circuit Court Of Lafa!
cite County, Missouri in vacatio
that the said defendants be notiiie
by publication that the plaintiff HI
commenced a suit against them
the Circuit Court of Lafayet
County, Missouri, for the purpose
trying, determining, settling 81
quieting the title to the above d
scribed real estate and by which sa
suit plaintiff seeks to forever bar al
preclude the said defendants a
each Of them from setting up
claiming any estate in and to sa
y real estate adversely to the plainti
and that unless said defendants
and appear at this court at the ne
term thereof to be begun and hold
at the Court House in the City
Lexington, in said Lafayette Count
Missouri, on the 9th day of OctobI
1922 next and on or before the fir
day Of said October Term 1922, a
swer or plead TO plaintiffs petit
in said cause, the same win be tax
as confessed aud judgment render