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Ill (tinnccry.'piIOKNTON MYERS. JohnT. Myers, Henry I Richards, Lyman Traitlum. Kphraim A. Brown, George W. Brown, and Charles Brown, will take notice that on this day. Robert Camp bell filed in the oflicc of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Meigs cotmty, m the State of Ohio, his bill in Chancery against ‘hem, J). S. Elliott, administrator of the estate of Beniamin Myers, deceased, and William V. Dcpuy. The said bill, among other things, alleges that in March. 1851, soid Robert Campbell and said Henry Richards contracted with said Benjamin Mvcrs and John T. Myen for the purchose of lot No. 2, in Myers' addition to Graham Station, in said county of Mein, and for the purchase of said lot and saw mill thereon, they, said Campbell and Richards, executed their notes to amount of Si,500, payable to said Benjamin and John T. Myers. Tint prior to said purchase, said Benja-mir Myers had conveyed his interest—one undivided half—in said lot to said Villiam V. De-puy—that in fact said conveyance to Dcpuy was in trust for said Thornton Myers—and that said Dcpuy now holds the legal title to said half of said lot in trust for said T. Myers. That said T. Myers and Wm. V. Dcpuy advised and assented to tIn* sale to Campbell and Richards, and that one half of said notes for 81,600 is in equity the 1 property of said Thornton Myers; that said Richards assigned to raid Trantum hit interest in said contract, and that thereafter said Trantum assigned the same 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 holf in his own right, and the other half thereof being in equity tho property of said Thornton Myers; and turkbur. that at the April tern of said Cotnt, tmff Wpmkm A. Brown. George W. Brown, and Oharlet Brown, recovered acairist said Thornton Myers, a judgment at law for 8676.75 debt and costs of suits on which some 8262 have been collected, and that the residue of said judgment is unpaid, and tliut the same has been assigned to complainant from said Browrn, and is now owned by complainant. The prayer of said bill, among cither things, is that what is due on said judgment may be opplied as* payment on Thornton Myers portion of said notes, and that upon comp'ainant* bringing into Court money sufficient to pay the residue of said Thornton Mgers' shore of said notes that said Wm. V. Dcpuy may be required to convey to the complainant the title to that half of said lot which j he received from Benjamin Myers in trust as j aforesaid for Thornton iMyers, and for general relief. And said defendcnts are further notified, that unless they severally plead, tower, or demur to said bill within Rixty days from the rising of the ensuing term of said court, the sonic will he ; taken, as to those in default, as confessed, and a , deciec asked accordingly. J. CARTWRIGHT, f1 Solicitor for Complainant.| A pm iS, l8M.iU*088.78) _
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Meigs County Telegraph
Pomeroy, Ohio, US
Tue, May 03, 1853
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