The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1849-05-26
CHNMce1y NOtice.


istrator of Lydia A.
Owens. decd. and Ma In Chancery
ny E. Owens. May 18th, 1s49
VS..
Benjamin B. Sweet. Jo- The object of
siah Gaskill, James this suit, is to
Hasson, Sarah Owens, procure decree
North East Manufac- for a.sale of GER
turing Company, John tain mortgaged
Griffin, and James B. premises in Ce-
Humphrey. Gil county which
were on the 4th day of March in the year
1899, mortgaged by the de1endent, Ben
jamin BSweet, to John Owens, James Has
son, Sarah Owens, ,dia A. Ovens. and
the complainant Mary E. Owens.
The Bill states that on the 18th day of
March, in the year 1889, the said Benja-
min B. Sweet, being largely indebted unto
THE slid John OWENS. James Hasson, Sa-
rah Owens, Lydia A. Owens, and Mary
F.. Owens, executed to them, his bond or
obligation of that data, on the penalty of
six thousand, six hundred and thirty dol
lars, conditioned for the payment
of three thousand, three hundred
and fifteen dollars, with legal interest for
the same, in equal instruments of six,
twelve, eighteen, and twenty four months
from the 18th day of March, in the year
aforesaid and to secure the payment of
the said sum of S33l5, with interest as
aforesaid, he the said BENJAMIN B. Sweet,
did by his deed bearing the same date, con-
vey TO the said John Owens, James Has
son, Sarah Owens, Lydia A. Owens and
Mary E. Owens, their heirs and assigns, a
certain tract of Land, lying and being in
Cecil county. and particularly described in
said deed, to which said deed condition
is annexed, that it be void on the payment
by the said Benjamin B. Sweet, to the said
John Owens, James Hasson, Sarah Owens,
Lydia A. Owens and Mary E. Owens,
their executors, administrators or assigns
of the sail sun of $3.50, with legal inter-
lest for sane, at the times and in the man.
ner aforesaid: that on the Both day of May
in the year 1914, the said John Owens,
James Hasson and Sarah Owens, assigned
and made over for value, all their right,
title, claim and interest, in the said bond,
to the complainant Mary E. Owens, by
which assignment, she became entitled to
four-filths of the said debt 50 secured by
the slid bond and m )rtgage, leaving the re-
manning oae-fith in the complainant John
Owens as administrator ofLydia A. Owens.
:Thatsincr the execution of the said bond and
mortgage the said Benjamin Z. Sweet hes
made the following payments thereon, viz:
Sl00 on the 10Th day Of October 1889,
IS 10 cts. on the 1st day Of December
1911. SOS in the month of May 1911,
$l3l.67 cts, ON the 9Th December 1871,
So, in the month Of May 1871, Sll9.70 cts
on the fifth day of April 1912, S7.45 cts.
in the month of November 1919, $500 on.
the lst day of March lS4a, $50 on the
18th day of April 1913, $40 on the 10th
day of May lS4S, and $40 on the I'd day
of August 1913, that the said Lydia A.
Owens has departed this life interstate and
without issue, and letters OF administration
on her personal estate have been in due
firm of law granted to the complainant
John Owens, the same john Owens mem
toned in the said bond and mortgage, that
since the execution of said bond and mort
gage, the said Benjamin B. Sweet has
leased to John Griffin, a part of the said
tract Of Land mentioned in the said deed
Of mortgage, tor the term of 10 years from
the first day of April 1916, for $50 per
annum; that he put the said John Griffin
in possession of the same and that he,
the said John Griffin, or the North
East Manufacturing Company who now
claim to hold, is in possession of
the same. and that the said Benjamin B.
Sweet hath sold or contracted to sell TO
one Josiah Gaskiil, part of the said Land
so mortgaged, and put said Josiah Gaskili
in pos session of the same, and that said
parts 50 leased and sold as well as the res
ilue OF the said morgaged Land. still re-
main charged with the payment of the said
debt and interest. The bill further states
wear lSIS, the said Benjamin. b. Sweet
mortgagetl the said Land to one. james i.
Humphrey, 10 secure the payment of $500
with interest, one year after date: that no
part Of the said sum of S33l5, or the in
terest thereon has been paid, except the
several credits aforesaid, but that the whole
of said sum and the interest thereon ex-
cept the payments aforesaid, remain due
and unpaid-and that the said John Crit
fin aud James B. Humphrey reside in Penn
syIvania Or elsewhere, out of the State Of
Maryland.
1t is thereupon adjudged and ordered, that
the complainants by causing copy of this
order to be inserted in some newspaper
published in the State of Maryland, once
in each successive week for one month,
before the 9th day of July next, give no
tice to the said absent defendants John
Griffin and James B. Humphrey, Of the OBJ
ject and substance of this Bill, and warn