The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-04-28
NO. 1lOl EQUITY.
Circuit Court for Carroll County.
FrpnvAnY TERM, 1870.


... FEBRUARY TERM, 1870.
Edward Lynch and Margaret his wife,
Francis N. Burgoon and Catharine his
wife. Eliza Lynch, Michael Lynch and Ann
his wife, Thomas Lynch, Henry Miller.
und Margaret his wife, and Bridget Lynch,
John T. Lynch and Mary his wife, George
Il. Snyder, Thomas Snyder, Daniel
Snyder, Elizabeth Lynch, Thomas Lynch,
and Edward Lynch.
VUNTlE object of this suit is TO obtain a
decree to sell the real estate OF which
Thomas Lynch, late of Carroll county, Md,
deceased, died seized and possessed, and
divide the proceeds from the sale thereof
among the parties entitled.
The bill states that the said Thomas
Lynch on the second day of March, A. ID.
1870 died intesiate, in said Carroll county,
aud was at his death seized in fee simple
aud possessed of various parcels of land
situate in said Carroll county, containing in
the aggregate one hundred and thirtythree
acres Of land, more or less.
That said Thomas Lynch at his death letl
a widow named Elizabeth, who resides in
said Carroll county, that he did not leave
any lineal descendants, and that his said
real estate at his death devolved upon and
vested in his following collateral heirs at
law and next of kin, Subject to the dover
right of his widow viz: The one undivi
ded third part thereof in the children and de-
scendants of his deceased brother, Michael
Lynch, viz: Edward Lynch, Catharine
Burgoon, and Eliza Lynch, three of the
complainants, and John I. Lynch, children
of said Michael Lynch, and George T..
Thomas and Daniel Snyder the children of
said Michael Lynch's deceased daughter
Mary A. who was intermarried with Levi
Snyder, and died in the year 1868. The
one undivided third part thereof in the four
children of his deceased brother John
Lynch, viz: Michael Lynch, Margaret Nil
ler two of the compliments, and Thomas
Lynch residing in Ireland, and Edward
Lynch, residing in the State of Massachu.
sctts aud the undivided third part thereof
in the two children Of his deceased brother
Edward Lynch. viz: Thomas Lynch aud
Bridget Lynch. two of the complainants
The bill further states that the aforesaid
real estate cannot be adyantageously divided
among the parties interested, and that it
will be to the interest aud advantage of the
partiesinterested therein to sell the same and
divide the proceeds from the sale thereof
among them in the proportions in which they
are respectively entitled, and that the com
plainants wave their right to take said real
estate or any part at any valuation that could
be placed upon it.
The bill further states that because the
said George 4. Snyder, Thomas Snyder,
Daniel Snyder, are infants under the age of
twenty.one years, a sale Of said real estate
cannot be had without the aid of this Court
The bill prays that the defendants shall
answer the same, prays for q sale Of said
real estate, the proceeds to be divided
among the rarties entitled, prays for gen.
eral relief, foran order adjudication against
the non resident defendants aud subpenas
against resident defendants.
1t is thereupon, this I'd day Of April, A.
D., 1870, adjudged and ordered that the
complainants by causing a copy ofthiS order
TO be inserted in some newspaper published
in Carroll county, Maryland, once week
for four successive weeks before the 10th day
of May next, give notice to the said George
i. Snyder, Thomas Lynch aud Edward
Lynch, the said absent defendants, of the
object and substance of this BILL and warn
them to appear in this Court in person or
by solicitor, on or before the 18th day of
August next, to answer the premises aud
show cause, il any they have, why decree
ought not to pass as prayed.
JOHN b. BOYLE, Clerk.
True copy,-Test:
ap7-4t JoHS B. BOYLE, Clerk.