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Ill Clitinrcry.rpiIORNTOX MYERS, John T. Myers, Merry .I Richards, Lyman Trantum, Ephraim A. Brown, George \V. Brown, and Charles Brown, will take notice thnl on this day. Robert Campbell filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Meigs county, in the State of Ohio, his bill in Clenmy against ‘bem, I).S. Elliott, administrator of the estate of Benjamm Myers, deceased, and William V. Depuy. The said bill, among other things, alleges that in March, 1851, said Robert Campbell and said ■ Henry Richards con track'd with said Benjamin Myers and John T. Myers 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, tr.ey, said Campbell and Richard**, executed their notes to amount of $1,600, payable to said Benjamin and John T. Myctf. Thrt prior to said purchase, said Benjamin Mycn had conveyed hi* interest—one undivided half—in said lot to said William V. Depuy—that in fact r?aid conveyance to Dcpuy was in trust for said Thornton Myers—and that said Depuy now holds the legal title to said half of said lot in trust for said J*. Myers. That said T. Myers and Wm. V. Depuy advised and assented to the sale to Campbell mid Richards, and Ihni one half of aaid notes for SI,600 is in equity the property of said Thornton Myers? that said Richards i«signed to said Tfantum his interest in amd contract, and that thereafter said Trantum assigned the snrao 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 other half thereof being in equity the property of said Thornton Myers; and Inrthur, that at the April term of said Court, 1811, Ephriam A. Brown, George W. Brown, and Charles Brown, recovered against said Thornton Myers, a judgment at law for 8676.75 debt and costs of suits on which some $'262 have been collected, and that the residue of said judgment is unpaid, and that the same has been assigned to complainant from said Brown?, 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 portion of said notes, and that upon comp1 ai nan U bringing into Court money sufficient to pay the residue of said Thornton M;era' share of said notes that said Wm. V. Depuy may be required to convey to the complainant the title to that half of said lot which he received from Benjamin Myers in trust as aforesaid for Thornton Myers, and for general relief. And said defendants are further notified, that unless they severally plead, anwer, or demur to said bill within sixty days from the rising of the ensuing term of said court, the snmc will he taken, as to those in default, as confessed, and a dectce ssked accordingly. J. CARTWRIGHT.Solicitor for Complainant.April 19, 1953.:l4wG88.76)
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Meigs County Telegraph
Pomeroy, Ohio, US
Tue, May 24, 1853
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