Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-06-04
J. @. A. HOLLOWAY,
Originator and Manufacturer,
107 McElderry's Wharf
may l4-3t BALTIMORE, Md.
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
John l. Jamison and Jane E Jamison,
his wife, VS.. Ellen Hays and others.
In the Circuit Court for Montgomery county.
as Court Of Equity. MARCH TERN, 1880.

TINE object of this suit is ) obtain a de-
cree for the sale of certain 4nds in Mont
gOmery county which were conveyed by II
certain Zachariah Knott TO certain Brooke
Jones and Rein B. 0ffutt, ~ deed bearing
date the 9th dav of January, 1916, and re-
corded among the Laud Records of Monlgom-
cry county ia Liber s. 7. S., No. 4, ioos l0l,
&c, for the purpose of partition among the
compliments and defendants in this cause.
The bill states that heretofore, 10 wit: on
the twenty-seventh day of January in the
year eighteen hundred aud sixteen, the said
Zachariah Knott, by his deed of that date re-
corded among the Land Records of Mongom-
ery county in Liber s. 7 s., No a, iolios
lOl, &C.. conveyed 10 certain Brooke Jones
and Rein b. 0fIutt, as tenants in common,
certain lands lying and being in said Mont
gomery county, aud particularly mentioned
and described 10 said deed that sometime in
the year eighteen hundred and fifty the said
Brooke Joaes departed this life iniesIae as 10
his undivided interest 10 SAID lands, leaving
widow, Teresa Jones, two daughters, viz the
complainant Jane E. Jamison, and Ellen
Hays, the wife OF a certain John Hays, and
one grandson, viz Henry B. Jones, the son
OF deceased daughter of the said Brooke
Jones, rs his only heir-at-law and legal rep
resentative to whom his undivided moiety OF
said lands descended by operation of law;
that The said John Hays has since departed
this life, that the said Henry B. Jones died u-
testate, unmarried, without issue and before
he had attained The age OF twenty-one years,
and that sometime IN the year eighteen hum
dred and seventy-six the said Teresa Jones
also departed this life.
The bill further states that sometime in the
year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, said
Rein B. Offutt departed this life having in
| his lifetime made and executed with all the
fOrmaliies uecersary TO pass real estate 10
last will and testament, which was duly ad-
| mitted o probate by the Orphans Court ol
| the! District of Columbia, and by which he
devised his undivided interest ia said lands
10 his wife, Catharine 0fult; that on the
twelfth day of March, in the year eighteen
hundred and foriy-nine, the said Calh"rine
Ofutt, by her deed of that date, recorded
among the Land Records of said Montgomery
COUNTY, 10 Libe. S. 7. s., No. 4, ioliOs lO5,
&C., conve,e ed her undivided moity Of said
Ian, 10 a certain Samuel Rainey; that some
time in the year eighteen hundred and sixty
one, The said Samuel Rainey departed this
life, having in his lifetime made and executed
| with all the formalities necessary 10 pass real
estate TO last will and testament, which was
duly admitted 10 probate by the Orphans
Court OF the District OF Columbia and by
which be devised his undivided interest in
said lands 10 his wife, Lucy Il Raiuey, aud
| that the said Lucy B. Rniuey has since de-
parted this life intestaie, leaving AS her only
heirs-at-law and legal representatives three
children, viz: Francis II Rainey, Mary
Rainey and Lucy c. Rninev; that the said
Francis II +. Rainey has iulermArried with \
certain Frances Il. Rainey, and that the SAID
Lucy c. Rainey has inlermarried with GER
tain james +. Thompson.
The bill charges that the said lands are
not susceptible of partition among the per-
sons entitled thereto, and they cannot he d.
vided without loss or injury TO the parties ~
ierested therein, anG alleges that the com
plainaats are entitled to have the same sold
and the proceeds .: such sale divided among
the parties entitled thereto in proportion to
their respective interests therein.
The prayers OF The bill are for a sale Tor lhe
purpose Of partition and general relief
The bill further states that the said Francis
II. Rainey and Frances Il. Rainey, his vile,
MARY Rsiney aud James +. Thompson and
Lucy G. Thompson, his wife. do not reside IN
the State Of Maryland.
II is thereupon this 9Th day OF MAY, 10 the
year eighteen hundred and eighty, ad.ndgeq
and ordered that the compliments, by caus-
ing copy of this order 10 be inserted Ia
some newspaper published at Rockville, 10
said Montgomery county, once in each OF
four successive weeks before the seventh day oil
June next, give notice to the said absent de-
fendan,s Of the substrnce and object OF The
bill, and warn them 10 appear in his Court
10 person or by solicitor on or hrIorr the
seventh day Of September next To answer The
premises aud show cause, it any they have,
why decree ought not TO pass MS prayed.
u. y. PRETTYMAN, Crk,
Circuit Court for Montgomery co.
True eopy-Test.
may-l4-4i E.B PRETTYMAN, CIR