Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
Abraham Letter VS.. Mary Baker and Others.

Abraham Letter VS.. Mary Baker and Others.
IN the Circuit Court for Washington County as
u Q Court of Equity.-No. 176S.-The object of
this suit Is to procure decree for the sale of the
real estate OF John Baker, late of said County,
deed. Or ID mitch thereof may be necessary
for the payment of the debts OF the said John
decd.
The bill states that the said John decd. was in
his life time indebted unto the Hagcrstown Bank
upon judgment rendered in the Circuit Court
for Washington County on the 18th day of April,
A. D., 1852 at the March Term OF said Court 1852
in the sum of one thousand dollars with interest
from the 23d day of October, A. ID. 1851 and costs
and protest So. so and $7.sl1I costs of suit and
who was indebted to said Bank upon certain
other Judgment rendered on the SAME day and
year in the same Court and for the same sum of
money as the Judgment aforesaid with interest
from the goth day of September, A. ID. 1851 and
So. 10 costs of protest and S7.slH costs on suit
and that afterwards and for good and bona fide
consideration the said judgments were by said
Bank assigned to said Abraham Letter, whereby
the same hath become and now belongs to him as
a debt against the said John decd. That said
John being so indebted and also unto other per-
sons and having real and person estate departed
this life in the year eighteen hundred and fiftytwo
intcstatc and leaving widow named Mary, and
Caroline now intermarried to William Stephcy
and John Is. W.. Baker as his only children and
heirs at law : And that said John L. w. Baker
is a nonresident Of the State of Maryland That
administration OF the personal estate of the said
John decd: hath been granted by the Orphans
COufto W asnlngtOn county unto Henry Gf0sh
of said County, who In virtue thereof hath pos
scssed himselfof the same but that the same is
not sufficient for the payment of all the debts of
the said, John decd. due and owing at the time
of his death That the said personal estate in the
hantls of the said Henry urosh ought to be ap-
piled to the payment of the creditors of the said
John decd. so far as the same will go and that any
deficiency ought to be supplied by a sale of the
real estate of the said ohm deC'a.
1t is thereupon this 3lst day of January, A. d.
1868 by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Wash
ington County ordered and adjudged that the COM
plainant by causing copy of this order to be in
serted in some newspaper published at Hagers-
town once a week for four successive weeks be-
fore the 9th day of March next, give notice to the
said John l.. w. Baker absent defendant as afore-
said of the object and substance of this bill and
warn him to appear in this Court in person or by
licitor on or before the 18th day of june next
to answer the premises and show cause if any he
has why decree ought not to pass as prayed
True copy-Test:
jams ISAAC NESBITT, Cpk.
John Rowland, VS.. Francis Nc Cormick, ond 9TH
MO. 15O6.-In the Circuit Court for Washing
~ ton County, sitting as a Court of Equity
Ordered by the Clerk of said Court this 5th
port and Account No. 2 and fnal filed in the
above case, be finally ratified and confirmed by
the Court unless cause to the contrary thereof
be shewn on or before the 2sth day of February
inst, provided a copy ofthis order be inserted in
some new paper printed and published in Ha-
gerstown, once a week for three successive
weeks before said last mentioned day.
True copy-Test /: ,..,
feb6 ISAAC NESBITT, Clerk.