The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1922-08-18
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
STATE OF MISSOURI,

lSEALl Aug. Is, 1922.
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
STATE OF MISSOURI,
COUNTY OF LAFAYETTE.
In the Circuit Court of Lafayette
Missouri, at Lexington, Oc-
tober term 1922, in Vacation August
10Th, 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
and files his petition, verified
by affidavit, alleging among other
that there are persons inter
ested in the subject matter of the petit
tion whose names plaintiff cannot in
sert therein because they are unknown
to him, and that such persons are the
unknown %consorts, heirs, devisees, do
nees, %afienees, and immediate, mesne
and remote voluntary and involuntary
grantees and successors in title and
assignees of George Houx, James H.
Graham, William Anderson, William
and James Aull, all now de-
ceased, as. individuals, and also as
trustees and %prOprietors Of the Add
tion 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
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 I'M
known c~onsorts, heirs, devisees do
nees, a~lienees, 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
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
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 (30) feet off of the east
side Of lot numbered five (5) and hf-
teen (15) feet off of the west side of
lot numbered six (6). all in block
fourteen (14), in the First
Addition to the Town (now City, of
Lexington, Missouri; that the petit
tion 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-
rious, hostile, lawful, exclusive, con-
tinuous and peaceable possession of
said real estate for more than thirty
one years, next before the filing Of
the petition, claiming title thereto and
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, devil
sees, donees, alienees, and immediate,
mesne and remote voluntary and in
voluntary grantees and successors in
title of George Houx, James H. Ora
ham, William Anderson, William
Spratt and James Aull, as individuals
and as trustees and proprietors OF
said Addition to the Town NOV City,
of Lexington, Missouri, are derived
from them by reason of the fact that
there is not Of record in said County
any conveyance from them as such
trustees and proprietors, whereas
said real estate was conveyed to
them as such, and that they and each
of them have been dead for more
than forty years; that the claims and
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 he
does not appear ever to have salts
fled and released Of record a mort
gage held by him on said real estate
OF record in said County in Book ~
page 1913, although the same has long
since been fully paid, and that said
William Spratt has been dead fol
more than forty years; that The
claims and interests of the unknown
heirs, successors in title and assign.
ees Of Carr B. Waddell are derived
from him by reason Of the fact thai
he does not appear ever to have sat
isfed 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 &c" page 7l2
although the same has long since
been fully paid, and that said Car
81 Waddell has been dead for morI
than forty years; that the petition
contains as full, correct and complete
a recital and description of Tho
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