The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1922-08-25
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
STATE OF MISSOURI.

ehS Shcult SOlrt OF Lafayette
county, Missouri, October Term, 1922.
AT Lexington, in vacation, July 9th,
Ferdinand G. Plaintiff
VS..
Henry F. Powling if living, or i'll
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
TIN 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
lication against them. Plaintiff fur
ther 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-
ileves thera 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 I'M
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 F. Powling, who en-
tered said land from the United
States Government, May 18th, 1871,
and a patent was issued to him May
LIST, l84S, a certified copy of said
patent being recorded in the Office Of
the recorder of deeds for Lafayette
County, Missouri in Book 257 at
Page III and that said Henry f.
Powling has conveyed said land
to any one by that name, and that
if the said Henry F. Powling be dead,
his unknown heirs, consorts, devil
sees, donees, alienees, 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 is
the ~patentee.
Plaintiff further states that he and
those under whom he claims have
been in the open, notorious, exclusive,
continuous, adverse, quiet and peace
able possession Of said real estate
for more than 35 years paying taxes
thereon and claiming title thereto.
Plaintiff further states that the de-
PENDANTS and each of them claim and
assert title to the aforesaid real es-
tate and that the claims Of said de.
PENDANTS are adverse and prejudicial
to the title and interest Of plaintiff
in said real estate. Plaintiff state:
that his petition contains as full, cor.
rect and complete q recital and de.
scription of the claims of said de.
PENDANTS and how such claims are de.
rived as the same are known to plain.
tiff. Therefore by reason Of The
premises plaintiff prays the Court K
try and ascertain and determine the
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 anC
decree the title, estate and interes
Of the parties severally in and to sale
real estate and the plaintiff pray
the court to hear, and finally deter
>mine any and all rights, claims an,
interest, liens and demands Of tn
parties or of anyone Of them, concern
ing or affecting said real estate an,
that the court win award full AM
complete relief, whether legal or eq
uitable to the several parties and Il
each of them according to the stat
utes in such cases made and provided
and for all other and further relief.
1t is therefore ordered by tn
Clerk of the Circuit Court Of Lafay
cite County, Missouri in vacation
that the said defendants be notified
by publication that the plaintiff ha
commenced a suit against them i
the Circuit Court Of Lafayett
County, Missouri, for the purpose 0
trying, determining, settling an
quoting the title to the above de
scribed real estate and by which sal
suit plaintiff seeks to forever bar an
preclude the said defendants an
each Of them from setting up Q
claiming any estate in and to sal
real estate adversely to the plaintiff
and that unless said defendants B
and appear at this court at the nel
term thereof to be begun and holde
at the Court House in the City {
Lexington, in said Lafayette Count,
Missouri, on the 9Th day Of Octohe
1922 next and on or before the frs
day Of said October Term 1922, Al
swer Or plead to plaintiffs petite
in said cause, the same will be take
as confessed and judgment render'
accordingly.
It is further ordered that a cor
hereof be published according to Ia
a.