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It is further considered, adjudged and decreed that said release be and the same is hereby cancelled, annulled, set aside and held for naught insofar as it purports to release any claim for damages for other injuries complained of and set forth in the complaint herein.

It is further ordered that the plaintiff have and recover herein his costs to be taxed and that execution issue therefor. To all of which the defendant excepts and its exception is allowed.

Done in open court this 14th day of November, 1916.
[Signed]
FRANK H. RUDKIN,

No. 689.

Judge.

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Decree Removing Cloud upon Title.

This cause having been regularly called for hearing and tried by the court, was heard upon the bill, answer, exhibits, agreements of parties, proof in the case, and arguments of counsel and the court being fully advised in the premises:

It is now, therefore, hereby ordered, adjudged and decreed that the plaintiff have judgment as prayed for in his complaint herein against the defendants and each and all of them; that all adverse claims of the defendants and each of them and all persons claiming said premises or any part thereof, through or under said defendants, or either of them, are hereby adjudged and decreed to be invalid and groundless; and that the plaintiff be and he is hereby adjudged and declared to be the true and lawful owner of the land described in the complaint, and hereinafter described, and every part and parcel thereof, and that his title thereto is adjudged to be quieted against all claims, demands, or pretensions of the defendants or either of them, who are hereby perpetually estopped from setting up any claims thereto or any part thereof. Said premises are bounded and described as follows: (Here follows description.)

And it is hereby further ordered, adjudged and declared that the plaintiff do have and recover his costs, hereby taxed

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Order Directing that Certain Records of a Named State Court be Filed and made a Part of the Record in a Suit Pending in Federal Court.

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Now on this 24th day of January, A. D. 1914, each and every the following pamphlets, papers and documents having been before the court and considered by the court in this cause, it is hereby ordered and directed that the following papers, pamphlets and documents be filed and made a part of the record in this case, to-wit:

1. The abstract of the record of the district court of Montgomery county, Kansas, in an action therein pending wherein. the state of Kansas was plaintiff and the Independence Gas Company, a corporation; The Consolidated Gas, Oil & Manufacturing Company, a corporation, and the Kansas Natural Gas Company, a corporation, were defendants, being No. 13,476.

2. The opinion, findings of fact, conclusions of law, restraining order, injunction, and decree of the Honorable Thomas J. Flannelly, district judge, in a case in the district court of Montgomery county, Kansas, wherein the state of Kansas was plaintiff, and the Independence Gas Company, a corporation; The Consolidated Gas, Oil & Manufacturing Company, a corporation, and the Kansas Natural Gas Company, a corporation, were defendants, being No. 13,476.

3. The transcript of the record in cause No. 4008 in the United States circuit court of appeals for the eighth circuit, wherein John L. McKinney, et al., are appellants, and John M. Landon, et al., are appellees.

4. Certified copy of the motion of the Fidelity Trust Company to quash service of summons in the case above men

tioned in the district court of Montgomery county, Kansas, No. 13,476.

5. Certified copy of the summons for personal service outside of the state of Kansas on the Fidelity Trust Company in said case in the district court of Montgomery county, Kansas, No. 13,476.

6. Certified copy of the affidavit for publication of the service in said case in Montgomery county, Kansas, No. 13,476.

7. Certified copy of the order of the district court of Montgomery county, Kansas, in said cause, No. 13,476, made and entered of record by the Honorable Thomas J. Flannelly on the 7th day of January, 1914.

8. Certified copy of the supplemental petition filed in said district court of Montgomery county, Kansas, in cause No. 13,476, on the 15th day of February, 1913, and filed as amended on February 27, 1913.

9. Certified copy of the journal entry in said cause No. 13,476, in the district court of Montgomery county, Kansas, made and entered therein on the 25th day of February, 1913.

10. Certified copy of the journal made and entered of record in said case, No. 13,476, in the district court of Montgomery county, Kansas, on the 11th day of March, A. D.

1913.

11. Certified copy of the order of the district court of Montgomery county, Kansas, made and entered of record in said cause, No. 13,476, and filed of record therein on the 21st day of June, A. D. 1913.

12. Certified copy of an order of the district court of Montgomery county, Kansas, made in said case, No. 13,476, and entered of record in said court on the 2nd day of July, A. D. 1913.

And each and every of said papers, pamphlets and documents are ordered filed and now made of record in this cause. Done in open court this 24th day of January, A. D. 1914. SMITH MCPHERSON,

Judge

No. 691.

Order Designating and Appointing Judge in One District to Hold Court in Another District, and Certificate Thereto.

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July 21, 1917.)

"Whereas, in my judgment the public interests require the designation and appointment of a district judge of another district in the circuit to hold the district court in the northern district of Texas in place and in aid of the district judge thereof, indefinitely absent by reason of sickness

Now, therefore, I, Don A. Pardee, senior circuit judge, now present in the circuit, do hereby designate and appoint the judge of the western district of Louisiana in said circuit, to-wit, the Honorable George W. Jack, to hold the district courts in the northern district of Texas in place and in aid of the judge thereof, and therein to have the powers provided in section 14 of the Judicial Code.

Witness my hand this 2nd day of April, 1917.

DON A. PARDEE, Senior Circuit Judge.

I, Louis C. Maynard, clerk of the United States district court for the northern district of Texas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of the order of the Honoarble Don A. Pardee, senior circuit judge of the fifth circuit of the United States, designating and appointing the Honorable George W. Jack, United States district judge for the western district of Louisiana to hold the sessions of the United States district court for the northern district of Texas.

In witness whereof, I hereunto affix my hand and the seal of said United States district court at Dallas, Texas, this 21st day of July, A. D. 1917.

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LOUIS C. MAYNARD,

Clerk.

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No. 692.

Order to Draft Board to Show Cause.

Upon the bill of complaint and summons in this action, and the depositions of Alexander Angelus, John Angelus and Louis Angelus, and it appearing to my satisfaction by the said bill of complaint and depositions that the complainant, John Angelus, is an alien who has not declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States and is as such not subject to draft under the statute known as the Conscription Act, and that the said complainant has been made and directed by the defendants above named to appear and submit himself to the military authorities of the United States in violation of the terms of the said Conscription Act.

Now, on motion of Charles Recht, solicitor for the said complainant herein, let the defendants, John Sullivan, Dr. Louis Aaronson and Dr. Edward Wagner herein, show cause before me or the judge of this court who may be presiding at the motion calendar hereof on the 13th day of September, 1917, at 10 a. m., of that day, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, why they should not be enjoined and restrained from certifying the name of the complainant herein for military service and why the name of the complainant herein should not be stricken from the list of persons who have been certified for military service and why the complainant should not have such other, further or different relief as may be considered equitable.

Service of a copy of this order and all papers upon which it was granted upon the defendants or any one of them on or before the 8th day of September, 1917, shall be sufficient service. J. M. MAYER, District Judge.

By granting this order to show cause, I do not indicate that this court has jurisdiction.

J. M. M.,

D. J.

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