The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1849-06-02
In Chancerv
May 18th, 1919

lstrator of Lydia A.
Owens. decd. and Ma In Chancery
ry 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 sale of GER
turing Company, John tain mortgaged
Griffin, and James B. premises in Ce-
Humphrey. Gil county which
were on the 18th day of March in the year
1889, mortgaged by the detendent, Ben
jamin B Sweet, to John Owens, James Has
son, Sarah Owens, Lydia A. Owens. 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 said John Owens. James Hasson, Sa-
rah Owens, Lydia A. Owens, and Mary
E. Owens, executed to them, his bond or
obligation of that date, 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
froR the 25th 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 said sum Of S33l5, with legal inter-
est for same, at the times and in the man
ner aforesaid that on the 30th 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 asst gnmeDt she became entitled TO
four-tifths of the said debt SO secured by
the said bond and mortgage, leaving the re-
naming one-ftlh in the complainant John
Owens as administrator ofLydia 4. Owens.
Thatsince the execution oftue said bond and
mortgage the said Benjamin B. Sweet has
made the following payments thereon, viz:
800 on the 18th day Of October 1889,
SIS 40 cts. on the 1st day Of December /
1871, sos in the month Of May 1871, |
$l3l.67 Cts, on the eth December 1871,
$3S in the month ofMay 1911, $119.70 cts
on the fifth day of A pril 1912, STD cts. |
in the month Of November 1913, s5100 on
the 1st day Of March 1913, $50 on the
18th day of April 1913, $40 on the 10th
day Of May 1913, and $40 on the I'd day
of August 1913, that the said Lydia A.
Owens has departed this life intestate and
without issue, and letters of administration
on her personal estate have been il due
form of law granted to the complainant
John Owens, the same John Owens men,
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, part Of the said
tract of Land mentioned in the said deed !
of mortgage, for the term of 10 years from
the first day of April 1916, for 800 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 Gaskill, part of the said Land
so morgaged, and put said Josiah Gaskill
in possession of the same, and that said
parts so leased and sold as well as the res
idue Of the said mortgaged Land, still re-
main charged with the payment of the said
debt and interest. The bill further states
that on the 7th day of December in the
year 1S4S, the said Benjamin B. Sweet |
mortgaged the said Land to one James B.
Humphrey, to 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 and James B. Humphrey reside in Penn
sylvania or elsewhere, out of the State of
Maryland.
1t isthereupon adjudged and ordered, that
the compliments 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, ofthe OBJ
iect and substance of this Bill, and warn