In the Circuit Court of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of Florida
in and for Alachua County - In Chancery
The First National Bank of Tallahassee Florida }
vs } Foreclosure
W.N. Sheats and Mary S. Sheats }
This cause coming on to be heard, and it appearing to the court that the
Defendants duly accepted service and waived the issue of Subpoena, and entered their appearance
and that they and either of them failed to plead, answer or demur thereto within the time
allowed by law, and that thereupon the Bill was taken Pro confesso by order duly entered, and
that the court having found by computation that there is due and owing from said Defendants
to the said Complainant on the promissory notes and mortgage in this suit, the sum of six
hundred and five (605) Dollars, whereof Five hundred and fifty (550) Dollars is for principal and
Fifty five dollars is for interest from the 23rd day of February AD 1897 (the date on which said
notes were made) to the date of this decree, and the further sum of Sixty Dollars and fifty cents the
same being the amount due as Attorney's fees as provided for in said notes, to wit, Ten per cent of
the amount of said recover. Therefore - It is ordered adjudged and Decreed that the said complainant
The First National Bank of Tallahassee, do have and recover of and from the said Defendants
W.N. Sheats and Mary S. Sheats the said sum of Six hundred and five Dollars, together with
the costs of this suit including the sale hereinafter provided for, if the same shall be
had and solicitors fees of ten percent and that the said Defendants do on or before
the 30th day of June, 1898 pay to the said Complainant the said sum herein above
found to be due from them to it for principal and interest, together with said costs of
this suit, and solicitors' fees of ten per cent; and That in default of said payment, the said
Defendants and all persons claiming through or under them, do stand absolutely barred and
foreclosed of and from all right and equity of redemption in and to the premises described
in the mortgage above referred to and every part and parcel thereof, forever to wit:
in and to al that certain tract or parcel of land situate in the county of Alachua
and described as follows:
Lying and situate in section Eight (8) Township Ten (10) South, Range Twenty (20) East
beginning at a point on the Northern Boundary Line of the D L Clinch Grant which
point is located Eight (8) chains and Thirteen (13) Links south of Eighty five and a
quarter degrees East from the point where the said North Boundary Line of said
Clinch Grant is intersected by the West Boundary line of Section Eight (8) Township Ten (10)
Range Twenty (20) East, and running thence North Nineteen (19) chains and
seventy five Links to the south limit of the right of way of the Transit Railroad
thence in a Northeasterly direction along the said South line of the right of way
of said Railroad (which line is thirty feet form the center of the track)
Eighteen (18) Chains and Ten (10) Links to a Stake Thence South Twenty five (25) chains
and seventy (70) Links to the North Boundary Line of the Clinch Grant: thence North
Eighty five and a quarter degrees West Seventeen (17) chains and fifty (50) Links to
the point of beginning, containing by Estimation Forty (40) Acres of land more or
less. That J.A. Ammons Esq atty at Law be and hereby is appointed a Special
Master of this court to levy upon the said Mortgaged premises, in the event of
default aforesaid and to offer the same for sale to the highest and best
bidder at a public auction thereof after having given notice of the time and
place of said sale in the Gainesville Weekly Sun a Newspaper published in said
County once a week for four consecutive weeks prior to date of said sale, as
[ Written in left margin: ]
see satisfaction of this decree in Mortgage satisfaction Book No 1 Pages 381 & 382
October 31st 1898 H.C. Denton Clerk
pr S.H. Wienges DC
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