Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-09-03
LEGAL AID. NO. 887
Notice of Sale Under Power Of
Land of Adam w. Smith and
Clinton A. Ashford
FultOn County,,


Clinton A Ashford
GEORGIA, Fulton County.
Whereas Adam w. Smith aud
Clinton a. Ashford did, on the first
day of March, 1921 execute end
deliver TO Atlanta Tfust company,
\ corporation, their certain deed to
secure debt conveying the proper
ty hereinafter described. To secure
an indebtedness Of Thirty Thousand
($3000D00) Dollars evidenced by
their SIX certain promis5ory notes
OF e"en date herewith, snid deed
TO secure debt being recorded on
tho seth day Of March, 1928, III
Sumter County Deed Book /, page
322; and whereas said deed to Sc
cure debt contained full powers OF
sale authorizing the grantee or its
assigns TO sell the property there
IN conveyed, after advertising such
sale for four conservatives weeks,
upon any default in payment of
principal or interest, or upon any,
failure TO keep the property insur-
ed on upon amy failure to pay taxes
thereon, reference being hereby
had to the aforesaid record of said
security deed; and whereas Atlanta
Trust company did. by assignment
dated the It'll day Of April, 1923,
and recorded on the 7th day of
June, 1923, in Sumter County Deed
Book /, page All assign and trans
fer to Metropolitan Life Insurance
company, a corporation, the aforc-
said notes and deed to secure debt
and the property conveyed there
by, specifically assigning and trans
ferring all powers contained and
granted in said deed to secure
debt; and whereas Metropolitan
Life Insurance company is now the
owner and holder of said notes and
deed to secure debt; and whereas
Adam w. Smith and Clinton A.
Ashford have failed and refused toI
make any payment Of principal or
interest since the first day Of Jan
uary, 1925; and whereas upon such
failures Metropolitan Life nsur-
ancc company has declared the en-
tire debt due and payable and has
so notified Adam W. Smith and
Clinton A. Ashford;
Now therefore, Metropolitan Life
Insurance company, as attorney inI
fact for Adam w. Smith and CIin-I
ton A. Ashford, acting under and
by virtue of the powers of sale con-
tanned and granted in said deed to
secure debt, will expose for sale att
public cutlery, to the highest bid
der for cash, before the court house
door at Americas in Sumter Coun-
ty, Georgia, within the legal hours
of sale, on Thursday, October l,
1925, as the property of Adam W,
Smith and Clinton A. Ashford, and
for the purpose of paying afore-
said indebtedness and making costs
Of sale, the following described real
estate which was conveyed by and
described in aforesaid deed to Sc
cure debt, to-wit:
All that tract oy parcel of land
,ituatc, lying and being in the
Twenty-Sixth (26th) District of
Originally Lee, now Sumter Coun-
ty, Georgia, known and distinguish
ed as the whole of land lots Num-
5crs One Hundred Thirty-SiX
N36), One Hundred Fifty-TWo
t152), One Hundred Fifty Three,
Q53), One Hundred Sixty-EiGht,
U68) and Zone Hundred Seventy
u7O) and parts of land lots Num-
bcrs Ono Hundred Thirty-Scven
Q3O, One Hundred Fifty-Onei
Q5D, One Hundred Fifty-Four
U54), One Hundred Sixty-Nine
$3.50, and One Hundred Seventy
One G7D, containing Fourteen
Hundred Eighty-Two and Thirty
Nine Hundredths (1482,39) acres,
and more fully described as fol-
lows, as will appear by reference
to a plat Of survey made March %,
1928, by o. T. Churchwell, survey
or, and recorded March 27, 1928, inI
Sumter County Deed Book /, page
sol: Beginning at the point where
the original west line of lot Num-
her 154 intcrsccts. the Americas
Friendship public road, and runningI
thence along the original west line
Of lot Number 1874 south 26.9
chains to the original corner at thcl
junction of lots Numbers 154, 1873,
1876 and 1856, thence along the origi-j
nal north line Of lot Number 1861
west 1854 chains to the original
northwest corner of lot Numbe
1856, thence along the original west
line of lot Number 1876 south 1885
chains to the original southwest
corner of lot Number 1876, thence
along the original south line of lot
Number 1876 east S5.1 chains,
thence south 46.4 chains to the
original south line OF lot Number
1877, thence along the original
south line of lot Number 1877 east
1O.74 chains to the original corner
at the junction of lots Numbers 1877,
151 and 1852, thence along the
original west line of lot Nc. 1871
south 10 chains to Wolf creek,
thence along the middle line of
Wolf creek, following the meander-
ings thereof, in a general south
easterly direction 81 chains-tO the
original south line of lot Number
ISL, thence along the original south
line of lot Number 151 east %
chains to the original corner at the
junction of lots Numbers ISL, $50,
III and ITO, thence along the orig
inal west line Of lot Number III
south AZ chains to the original south
west corner of lot Number III,
thence along the original south line