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In Clinncerr.'TMIORNTON MYERS. JohnT. Myen, Henry I Richards, Lyman Trantum. Ephraim A. Brown, George W. Brown, and Charles Brown, will lake notice that on this day, Robert Camp bell filed in the office of the Clerk of the fourt of Common Pleu of Meiga county, in the Stale of Ohio, his bill in ( hancery against *linn, I). S. Elliott, administrator of the estate of Benjamin Myers, deceased, and William V. Doptiy. The said bill, among other things, alleges that in March, 1861, said Robert Campbell and said Henry Richards contracted with said Benjamin Myers and John T. Myer for the purchase of lot No. 2, in Myers* addition to Graham Station, in said 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 Benjamin and John T. Myers. Thil prior to said purchase, said Benjamin Myers had conveyed hi* interest—one undivided half—in taid lot to said Vitliam V. Dc-puy—that in fact said conveyance to Dipuy was in trust for said Thornton Myers—r.nd that said Denuy now holds the legal title to said half of said lot in trust for said T. Myers. That said T. Myers and Win. V. Depuy advised and assented to the sale to Campbell and Richards, and thnt one half of said notes for 81,600 is in equity theproperty of said Thornton Myers; that said Rich-nrdi assigned to said Trantura his interest in saidcontract, nnd that thereafter said Trtct’tm «s signed ihe same to the complainant, nnd thd! complainant assumed and took upon himself the payment of said notes; that they arc now in the hands if said John T. Mvcrs, he holding them one half in his own right, and the other l.nlf thereof being in equity the property of said Thornton Myers; and lurthur. that at the April tenn of said Court, 1811, Ephriam A. Brown. George W. Brown, and Charles Brown, recovered against said Thornton Myers, n judgment at law for 8676.76 debt bum costs of suits on which some $262 have been collected, and that the residue ol said judgment is unpaid, and that the same has been assigned to Complainant from said Browni, and is now owned by complainant. The prayer of said bill, among otheT things, is that what is due on said judgment may be applied as payment on Thornton .Myers portion of said notes, and that upon conip'amanta brinmng into Courtmoney sufficient to uay the residue of said Thorn f iton M;crs' share of said notes that said Wo. V. Depuy may be required to convey to the complainant the title to that half of aaid lot which he received from Benjamin Myera in truat as aforesaid for Thorn ton Mycri, and for general relief. And said defendcnta arc further notified, that unless they severally plead, anwer, or demur to said bill within sixty days fn m the rising of the ensuing term of said court, the same will lie taken, bb to those in default, aa confessed, and a dec ice raked aocordingly. J. CARTWRIGHT.Solicitor for Complainant.April 19. 1863. Uwr»$8.76)
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Meigs County Telegraph
Pomeroy, Ohio, US
Tue, May 17, 1853
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