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In ChancciT. •'I'HORNTON MYERS. JohnT. Myers. HenryI Richards, Lyman Traittum. Ephraim A. Brown, George W. Drown, and Charles Brown, will Uki: notire that on this day. Robert Cnmp bell filed in the office of the Cleric of the Court of Common Plea* of Meigs county, in theStme of Ohio, Iris bill in (I emrry pprrrt Miem, l. S. Elliott, administrator of the estate of Benjamin .Myers, deceased, and William V. Depuy. The said bill, among other things, alleges that in March, 1851, said Robert Campbell and said Henry Richards contracted with laid Benjamin Myers and John T. Myer for the purchase of lot No. 2, in Myers* addition toGrnhnm Station, in said county of Meigs, and for the purchnse of said lot and saw mill thereon, they, said C amp-bell and Richards, execultd their notes to amount of 81,500, payable to said Benjamin and John T. Myers. That prior to snid purchase, said Bcnjn-mir Myers hnd conveyed hi* interest—one undivided half—in snid lot to said Viliiam V. De-puy—that in fnct said conveyance to Dcpuy was intrust for said Thornton Myers—and that said Depuy now holds the legal title to said half of snid lot in trust for said T. Myers. Thnt said T. Myers and Wro. V. Depuy advised and assented to the sale to Campbell nnd Richards, and thnt one half of said note3 for 81,500 is in equity the property of said Thornton Myers; that said Richards assigned to raid Trantum hut interest in said contract, nnd that thereafter said Trantum assigned the same to the complainant, and that complainant assumed and took upon himself the payment of said notes; thnt they arc now in Unhands of said John T. Myers, lie holding them one half in his own right, and the other half thereof being in equity the property of said Thornton Myers; and lurthur. '.bat at the Aon! term of laid Court. 1841, Kphrinm A. Brown. George W. Brown, and Charles Brown, recovered agmnst said Thornton Myers, a judgment at law for 8670.75 debt am! costs ot nulls on which some 8282 have been collected, and that the resi-diie ot said judgment is unpaid, and thnt the same has been assigned to complainant from said Browni, and is now owned by complainant The prayer of said bill, among other things, is that what is due on said judgment may be applied as payment on Thornton Myers p ortion of snid notes, and that upon con.p ainniits bringing into Court money sufficient to pay the residue of said Thornton M,ert' share of .said notes that said Wm. V. Dcpuy may be required to convey to the complainant the title to that half of snid lot which he received from Benjamin Myers in trust as aforesaid for Thornton Myers, and for general relief. And said defendenis are further notified, thnt unless they severally plead, anwer, or demur to said lull within sixty days from the rising of the ensuing term of said court, the same win be taken, as to those in defiMtR, as confessed, and a dccice J*ilttd accordingly. J. CARTWRIGHT.Solicitor for Complainant.April 19, 18d3..14wi8a.75)
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Meigs County Telegraph
Pomeroy, Ohio, US
Tue, May 10, 1853
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