Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-04-11
IN CHANCERY.
Oh NCERY.


STATE d,5u OF o U%;yM 81. }scoo"d o"eui'
William Doe and others Grafton Bank and another.
WHEREAS, William Doe, Caleb Stevens, Jr. John
w Atwood, and Benjamin Atwood, and Frank p.
Johnson Of Newbury, in SAID Orange County, and Hi
Johnson and loses johnson of the city, county and
state Of New York have filed in the Office of the clerk
of said Court their bill Of complaint stating in sub
that Martha Porter late of Haverhil the county 0f
Grafton add State Of New Hampshire, deceased, on
about the 9Th of september, 1923 executed the Press
ident, Directors and Company Of the Grafton Bank
Corporation doing business at said Haycrhlll, her
of that date for $500 payable four years from dat
with interest annually that the 18th of March, 1925
secure the payment ihcrto of she mOugagcd said
alton Bank certain lands in said Newbury particular
y dies cbed in bill Of complaint pending in SAID
Court in favor Of said bank, against the a,ors, fore
close said gage, reference being thereto had that
said Martha died on or about the 9Th OF Sepiem
1875, hav pg previously made her will and appolnt.d
William 4. Haddock executor thereof; that said will
proved and said addock the and gave
bonds, and appointed administrator with the will
annexed this state accepted the and gave bonds
and by said will empowered to sell tho real Of
said Martha that said Haddock caused said premises to
be invenor;d and appraised at their full value and a
forwards the 18th OF Apu 1926, sold said premises
separate parcels the Stevens Awuods ami
one her J. Chaplin deceased and to Moses ohm
SON or and William Doe, senior, deceased that
SAID Chapin conveyed his interest afterwards said
Stevens said Doc senior, conveyed his interest To
the Doc and sad Moses Johnson senior devised
his interest therein to SAID orators Frank p and Moses,
aud that the Of the deeds said grantees paid
gave their said Haddock for The full value Of
me premises winch they since paid and claim hat said
$500 note is discharged that said Paddock collected and
was charged with than $1,000 90 Of the avas of said
Maas estate and above sufficient 10 pay the debts
of said estate as allowed by commiss previous to
his death IN May 1885, all of which he squandprrd
said bank pretcnds that on the Goth Of May, 1885, Dan
Baisde Of Hanover in said G. alton county, was appoiR
ted administrators de bonis non with the will annexed on
the estate of the said Martha Porter aud the LIST OF
June 1885, appointed such administrator this state
accepted The trust and gave bonds in both States that
said alsde such administrator has collected of SAID
HaddocS's bonGsmen IN New Hampshire morethan S4-
Co., ana is prosecuting his bOndsmen in this slate fol
So 600 more which bondsmen hero respon-
sibe and which and will be assets in his hands,
subject to distribution amens The heirs OF SAID Marh
that commssl were appointed on said estate both in
New Hampshire and here and that said Bank never pre-
scented the said $500 note to the said comn'ssoaers that
all the debts allowed by SAID commissioners have been
paid that the said Grantees OF said Haddock Ind those
under them and the orators have since By
SAID haddock been in possession and receipt OF the rents
and profits of the premises claiming them their
that said Grafton Bank have brought their bill 10 forecose
said mortgage against the orators, and the
pending in Ills Count but have neglected TO make said
Blasdel administrator aforesaid party 10 the same,
and To which the orators have filed their answer and
praying that said Blasdel administrator aforesaid
may be decreed pay said bank said note il the same
lasy due of said or &c the orators, what they
may be decreed pay said bank, If any thing and that
said Grafton Bank dit claim to the orators and or other
relief and their costs.
And whereas it appears that said President, Directors
and Company of the Grafton Bank and reside out OF
the SAFE to wit, doing business at said Havefml ana
said Baisdell, administrator as aforesaid resides out o
the state wit at Hanover said Gaon county so mat
subpoena cannot be served them therefore nohce Is
hereby given said Grafton Bank and said basdel id
minstraIor as aforesaid and they hereby required TO
appear before tho chancellor Of The second judicial circuit
The state of Vermont at tho court house in Chelsea in
said Orange county tho Sd Tuesday of June next being
the first day Of the stated term of the court Of Chan
eery in said county, aud make answer 10 the bill Of
na{nt aforesaid and abide such order direction and
cree therein as to sad Chancellor shall seem meet
And The compainants In such bill directed to
this order be published three weeks successfully in the
Vermont Waterman and Stale Journal printed at Mont
heller in Washington county, the last Of which publ cations
to be least twenty days previous 10 the rd Tuesday
Of June next.
Dated Chelsea the County of Orange, March soth
ID 1912 PERLY G. JONES, CLERK.
A. Underwood Solicitor. 81