The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1922-01-13
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
STATE OF MISSOURI.

ruary term, 1922. In vacation, De-
cem6er 21st, 1921
William Maring, Plaintiff
VS.
The unknown consorts, heirs, devil
sees, donees, alienees, and immedi-
ate, mesne and remote, voluntary
and involuntary grantees Of Peter
Esselman, deceased, and of Jessey
Cox, deceased, and Henry Thieman,
August Thieman, Louis Thieman,
Lydia Thieman, Lewis Thieman,
Daniel Thieman, Melvin Thieman,
Laura Dryer, Della Thieman, Irwin
Thieman, Ralph Thieman, Otto
Thieman, Paul Thieman, Martha
Hottie, Emil Thieman, Alfred THE
man, Leonard Thieman, Roy THE
man, a minor, and Theodore THE
man, a minor, and Mary Grifford,
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 pc
tition whose names plaintiff cannot
insert therein because they are I'M
known to the plaintiff and that such
persons are the unknown consorts,
heirs, devisees, donees, alienees, and
immediate, mesne and remote, volun-
tary and involuntary grantees Of
Peter Esselman, deceased, and of
Jessey Cox, deceased, and describing
the claims and interests of such un-
known persons, and how the same
are derived, so far as known to plain
tiff, and also alleging that defend
ants Otto Thieman, Paul Thieman and
Martha Hottie are non-residents Of
the State of Missouri: Whereupon, it
is ordered by the Clerk of said Court,
in vacation as follows: To the said
defendants, the unknown consorts,
heirs, devisees, donees, alienees, and
immediate, mesne and remote, volun-
tary and involuntary grantees of
Peter Esselman, deceased, and Of
Jessey Cox, deceased, and Otto THE
man, Paul Thieman and Martha Hot
to, you are hereby notified that plain
tiff has commenced a suit against
you in this Court the object and gen.
eral nature of which is to obtain a
Judgment and decree of said Court
determining the title and interests of
the plaintiff and defendants in, and
to quiet title to, the following de-
scribed real estate, situate in the
County of Lafayette and State Of
Missouri, ,to-wit: The East half Of
the Southwest quarter Of the North
west quarter Of Section nine 10y,
Township forty-eight (48), Range
tw~enty-four (24), that the petition al
leges that the plaintiff is the owner
in fee and is in possession of said
real estate and that plaintiff AND
those under whom he claims have
been in the open, adverse, notorious
hostile, lawful, exclusive, continuou:
and peacable possession of said rea
estate for more than thirty-one year:
next before the filing of the petition
claiming title thereto and paying
taxes thereon; that the claims anc
interests of said unknown persons
are unknown to plaintiff and cannot
be set forth in the petition for The
reason that the anne r unknown
to him, and that said unknown per
sons claim some title, interest or es
tate in said real estate, the nature
and character of which is unknown
to plaintiff and cannot be described
in the petition except that said claim
are preiudicial and adverse to plain
tiff; that the claims and interests O
said unknown consorts, heirs, dew
sees, donees, %alienees, and immediate
mesne and remote, voluntary and IN
voluntary grantees Of Peter Essel
man, deceased, are derived from tn
said Peter Esselman, deceased, b,
reason of the fact that on March Bro
1852, he acquired an interest in sal
real estate by deed recorded in sal
County of Lafayette and appears o
record never to have conveyed tn
same, and that the said Peter Essel
man has been dead for more tina
thirty-one years; that the claims an
interests of said unknown consort'
heirs, devisees, donees, %alienees, an
immediate mesne and remote, volur
tary and involuntary grantees
Jessey Cox, deceased, are derive
from the said Jessey Cox, deceased
by reason of the fact that in the yea
1876 the said Jessey Cox, deceased
acquired an interest in said real e;
tate as an heir of Christopher Coz
deceased, who entered said land, an
thereafter undertook to convey h
interest in said land but imperfect
described the same, and thereafte
died without having conveyed tn
same by proper description, and theI
is no instrument Of writing Of recor
from Jessey Cox properly describin
said land, and that the said Jesse
Cox has been dead for more tina
thirty-one years; that defendant
Otto Thieman, Paul Thieman an
Martha Hottie heirs at law of Hem
Thieman, deceased, claim some It'll
interest or estate in and to said lar
or real estate the nature and cha
acter of which is unknown to plail
tiff and cannot be described in Il
petition except that said claims O.
preiudicial and adverse to plaintiff
that the petition contains as full, co
rect and complete a recital and d
scription Of the claims Of said d
PENDANTS and how such claims a
derived as same are known to plai
tiff, and that unless you, said d
PENDANTS, be and appear at this Cou
at the next term thereof to be b
gun and holden at the Court Hou
in the City Of Lexington, in So
Comfy on the second Monday in Fe