Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-04-25
IN CHANCERY.
IN CHANCERY.
STATE OF VERMONT, ! second cnc0i,

STATE of VhhMoN IL Second Cncut
William Doe and others VS.. Grafton Bank and another.
WHEREAS, William Doe, Caleb Stevens, Jr. John
w Atwood, and Benjamin Atwood and Frank P.
Johnson of Newbury, in sad Orange County, and Hi
Johnson and Moses Johnson of the city, county and
State of New York. have filed in the Office of tho clerk
of said Court their bill Of complaint stating in substance
that Martha Porter late of Haverhl, in the county of
Grafton and State of New Hampshire, deceased, on or
dcnt, Directors and Company of the Grafton Bank, a
Corporation doing business at said Havorh her
of that date for $500 payable in four years from date
with interest annually that on the 18th of March, 1890
Grafton Bank, certain lands in said Newbury particular
y described in bill of complaint pending in said
Court in favor Of said bank, against the orators, to fore
close said gage, reference being thereto had that
said Martha died about the eth of September
1920, having previously made her will and appointed
William T Haddock executor thereof; that SAID will
was proved and said Haddock accepted the aud gave
bonds and was appointed administrator with the will
annexed in this acce pied tho and gave bonds
and was by said will empowered to sell the real estate of
said Martha thar said addock caused said premises to
be invenorled and appraised at their full values and af
forwards OF the 18th OF April 1926 sold said premises in
separate parcels the orators Stevens Awoods and to
one Eber J. Chaplin, deceased and to Moses ohm
SON sen and William Doe, senior, deceased that
sad Chaplin conveyed his interest afterwards to said
Stevens, said Doe senior conveyed his interest
the orator Doe, and said Moses Johnson senior devised
h interest therein to SAID orators Frank p and Moses
and that the Of the deeds said grantees paid
and gave their said Haddock for the full value Of
tine premises winch they since paid and claim That said
char ed with than $1,000 90 of the avas of said
Matha ale over and above sufficient TO nay the debts
Of sad estate allowed by commissioners previous to
his death May, 1885, all of which he squandered,
said bank preends that on the Goth Of May 1886, Dan
Blasdell of Hanover said Grafton county, appon
ted administrator dc bons non with the will annexed on
the estate of The said Martha Porter, and the LIST Of
June 1889, appointed such administrator in this state
accepted the trust and gave bonds in both States; that
said Balsdel such administrator, has collected Of said
Haddock's bonGsmen in New Hampshire, more than s4
U00 and is prosecuting his bondsmen in this state fur
more than 1000 more, which bondsmen here respon
sibe and which sums and will BIO assets in his hands,
subject to distribution among the heirs OF said Martha ;
that commissioners appointed said estate both
New Hampshire and here, and thai said Bank pre-
sened the said 5000 note the said commissioners; that
all the debts allowed by SAID commissioners have been
paid thai the said Grantees OF said Haddock ard those
claiming under them and the orators have since v
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 forecose
said mortgage against the orators and the same
pending in ills Court but have neglected to make said
Basde administrator aforesaid party to the same,
and to which the have filed their answer, and
praying that said Blasdel administrator aforesaid,
may be dcceed TO pay said bank said note the
lastly due out of said assets &c the orators what they
may be decreed to pay said bank if thing, and that
said Grafton Bank quit claim to the and for other
relief, and their costs.
And whereas, appears that said President Directors
and Company of the Grafton Bank are and reside out OF
the State, to wit doing business at said Havchil and
SAID Biasdell, administrator as Aforesaid resides Of
the state, TO wit at Hanover said Grafton county that
subpoena cannot be served them therefore notice
hereby given TO said Grafton Bank and said Baisde adj
mnisrator aforesaid and they hereby required 10
appear before the chancellor of The second Judicial circuit
Of the state of Vermont, the court house Chelsea in
said Orange county the Sd Tuesday of June being
the first day Of the next stated term OF the Of Chan
cery in said county, and make the bill of com
plant aforesaid and abide such order direction and
cree therein to sad Chancellor shall meet
And the complanants in such bill directed to cause
this order be published tire weeks successfully in tn,
Vermont Waterman and Stale Journal, printed at Mont.
peer in Washington county, the last Of which publ
to be at least twenty days previous the third TUESDAY
of June next
Dated at Chelsea, in tho County of Orange March SOL
ID 1912 PERLY G. JONES, Clerk
A. Underwood Solicitor. 81