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In riuincery.r pHOHNTON MYBR8, John T. M/era, HenryI Richards, Lyinnn Trantum. Ephraim A. Brown, George W. Brown, and Charlei Brown, will lake notice that on this dny. Robert Campbell filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Meigs county, in the Slat# of Ohio, his bill in Chancery against •.hero, D. 8. Elliott, administrator of the estate of Benjamin Myers, deceased, nnd William V. Depuy. The said bill, among other things, alleges that in March, 1851, said Robert Campbell and said Henry Richards contracted with an id Benjamin Myers and JohnT. Myers for the purchase of lot So. 2, iu Myers’ addition to Graham Station, in snid county of Meigs, and for the purchase of said lot and saw mill thereon, they, Said Campbell and Richards, executed their notes to amount of $1,600, payable to said Bcujnmin and John T. Myers. That prior to said purchase, said Benjamin Myers had conveyed his interest—one individual half—in gaid lot to snid William V. Depuy—that in fsct said conveyance to Depuy was in trust for said Thornton Myers—and that said Depuy now holds the legal title to said half of soid lot in trust for said T. Myers. That said T. Myers and Wm. V. Depuy advised and assented to the sale to Campbell and Richards, and that one half of said notes lor 8l,6d0 is in equity the property of mud Thornton Myers; that said Rich-nrds assigned to 3aid Trantum his interest in said contract, and that thereafter said Trantum assigned ihe sam* to the complainant, and that complainant assumed and took upon himself the payment of said notes; that they are now in the hands of said John T. Myers, he holding them one half in his own right, and the othej half thereof being In equity the property of said Thornton Myers; and lurthur, that at the April term of said Court, 1841, Ephriara A. Brown. Georee W. Brown, ond Charles Brown, recovered aemnst snid Thornton Myers, a judgment at law for 8076.75 debt and costs of suits on which some 8262 have been collected, mid that the residue of said judgment is unpnid, and Hint the same has been assigned to complainant from said Brown?, and is now owned by compininant. The pruyer of said bill, ninnng other things, is that what is due on snid judgment may be applied as payment on Thornton Myers portion of said notes, and that upon complainants bringing into Court money sufficient to pay the residue of said Thornton M,ers' share of snid notes that said Win. V. Depuy may be required to convey to the complainant the title to that half of said lot which he received from Benlnmin Myers in trust as aforesaid for Thornton Myers, and for general relief. And said defendents are further notified, that unless they severally plead, anwer, or demur to said bill within sixty days from the rising of the ensuing tenn of snid court, the same will be taken, as to those in default, as confessed, nnd a Ucciee esked aocordmgly. J. CARTWRIGHT.Solicitor for Complainnnt.April 19, 1853.«?
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Meigs County Telegraph
Pomeroy, Ohio, US
Tue, Apr 19, 1853
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