The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1922-09-01
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
STATE OF MISSOURI,
COUNTY OF LAFAYETTE-ss.
In the Circuit Court Of Lafayette
County, Missouri, at Lexington, Oc-
tober term 1922, in Vacation August
18th, 1922.
Albert E. Taubman Plaintiff
VS..
The unknown consorts, heirs, devil
sees, donees, alienees, and immedi-
ate, mesne and remote voluntary
and Involuntary grantees, and sue
cessors in title, and assignees, of
George Houx, James H. Graham,
William Anderson, William Spratt
and James Aull, all now deceased,
as individuals and also as trustees
and proprietors Of the Addition to
the Original Town (now City, of
Lexington, Missouri, and Of Carr B..
Waddell, deceased Defendants.
Now comes the plaintiff by his at
tOrney and files his petition, verified
by affidavit. alleging among other
things, that there are persons inter-
ested in the subject matter Of the petit
tion whose m plaintiff cannot in
sert therein because they are unknown
to him, and that such persons are the
unknown %consorts, heirs, devisees, do
nees, ~alienees, and immediate, mesne
and remote voluntary and involuntary
grantees and successors in title and
assignees of George Houx, James H.
Graham, William Anderson, William
Spratt, and James Aull, all now de-
ceased, as individuals, and also as
trustees and prOprletors Of the Add
ton to the Original Town (now City,
of Lexington, Missouri, and of Carr
B. Waddell, deceased, and describing
the claims and interests Of such I'M
known persons, and how the same
are derived, so far as known to plain
tiff. Whereupon it is ordered by the
Clerk of this Court IN VACATION as
follows: To said defendants, the un-
known consorts, heirs, devisees do
nees, alienees, and immediate, mesne
and remote voluntary and involuntary
grantees and successors in title, and
assignees, of George Houx, James H.
Graham, William Anderson, William
Spratt and James Aull, all now de-
ceased, as individuals and also as
trustees and proprietors Of the Add
ition to the Original Town (now
City, of Lexington, Missouri, and Of
Carr B. Waddell, deceased: You are
hereby notified that plaintiff has COM
menced a suit against you in this
Court the object and general nature
of which is to obtain a judgment and
decree of said Court determining the
title and interests of plaintiff and de-
PENDANTS in, and to quiet title to, the
following described real estate, stu
ate in Lafayette County, Missouri, to-
wit: Thirty 1907 feet off of the east
side Of lot numbered five (5) and ff-
teen (15) feet off of the west side of
lot numbered six (6), all in block
numbered fourteen (14), in the First
Addition to the Town now City, of
Lexington, Missouri; that the petit
ton alleges that the plaintiff is the
owner in fee, and in the possession
of said real estate, and that plain
tiff and those under whom he claims
have been in the open, adverse, noto-
l%rious, hostile, lawful, exclusive, con-
tinuous and peaceable possession of
said real estate for more than thirty
one years, next before the fling Of
the petition, claiming title thereto and
paying taxes thereon; that the claims
and interests Of said unknown per-
sons are unknown to plaintiff and can
not be set forth in the petition for
the reason that same are unknown
to plaintiff, and that said unknown
persons claim some title, interest or
estate in said real estate, the nature
and character of which is unknown
to plaintiff and cannot be described in
the petition except that said claims
are prejudicial and adverse to plain
tiff; that the claims and interests OF
said unknown consorts, heirs, devi.
sees, donees, alienees. and immediate
mesne and remote voluntary and in.
voluntary grantees and successors ir
title of George Houx, James H. era
Lam, William Anderson, William
Spratt and James Aull, as individuals
and as trustees and proprietors o.
said Addition to the Town (now City,
Of Lexington, Missouri, are deriveC
from them by reason Of the fact thai
there is not Of record in said County
any conveyance from them as sucf
trustees and proprietors, whereas
/, said real estate was conveyed Il
them as such, and that they and eacf
Of them have been dead for NOR
/, than forty years; that the claims anS
interests of the unknown heirs, sue
cessors in title and assignees Of Will
lam Spratt are derived from him, al
! so, by reason Of the fact that h
l does not appear ever to have salts
fled and released of record a mort
{ gage held by him on said real estatI
5 of record in said County in Book 81
; page 1913, although the same has lonl
{ since been fully paid, and that SAT-
William Spratt has been dead TO
4 more than forty years; that tn
e claims and interests of the unknown
heirs, successors in title and assign
ees Of Carr B. Waddell are deriveN
: from him by reason Of the fact tina
I he does not appear ever TO have sat
| isied and released Of record a mort
: gage held by him on said real estate
Of record in said County In the Re
{ corder's Office in Book CO page az
although the same has long sine
a heen fully paid, and that said Car
r B. Waddell has been dead for NOR
Z than forty years; that the petitio
9 contains as full, correct and complet
tia recital and description Of n
: claims Of the unknown defendant
and how such claims are derived a