Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1884-08-29
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
james B.. Henderson, Plaintiff, VS.. Jul
ian Griffith and Mary V. Griffith, his
wife, Robert Hicks and Annie 4.
Hicks, his wife, and Sarah L. Har.
per, Defendants.
In the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, as Court of Equity.

TNHE OBJ ECT of this suit is to procure q
Il Decree for the sale of the lands OF which
Richard Harper, late OF Montgomery county,
died seized and possessed, or so much there
OF as may be necessary for the payment of his
debts
The Bill states:
LIST. That the said Richard Harper was in
his lifetime indebted unto certain William
Mallican, of said Montgomery county, in the
sum of one hundred and twenty dollars and
sixty cents, with interest thereon from the
sixth day Of June, in the year eighteen hun
dred and seventy-six, and the sum of eight
dollars and twenty cents costs of the suit on
and by virtue of Judgment rendered on said
sixth day of June, in the year eighteen hun
dred ana seventy-six, by the Circuit Court
for Montgomery county, in favor of the said
William Mullican against the said Richard
Harper for said sum of money, with interest
and costs as aforesaid, which said judgment
has since been assigned by the said William
Mulican to the plaintiff; and was further in
debted 10 the plaintiff in the sum of seven
hundred dollars, with interest thereon from
the twenty-ninth day of September, in the
year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, on and
by virtue of his single bill to the plaintiff,
bearing said date, for said sum Of money and
payable three years after date, with interest
as aforesaid.
End. That being so, as aforesaid, indebted
unto the plaintiff and unto divers ofher per
sons in large sums of money the said Richard
Harper, some time in the month of June, in
the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four,
departed this life intestate, being al the time
OF his death possessed of very little, If any,
personal property, but owning real estate OF
considerable value and leaving three children,
viz: Mary ", intermarried with certain
Julian Griffith Annie E., intermarried with
certain Robert Hicks, and Sarah l.. Harper,
his only heirs-at-law and legal representa-
tives.
Bird. That the personal estate left by the
said Richard Harper is so inconsiderable in
amount and value that no administration
thereon has been sued out OF the Orphans
Court OF Montgomery county, and the plain
tin charges that If the said Richard Harper
left any personal estate whatever, and the
plaintiff has been unable to discover any, the
same is wholly insufficient to discharge the
debts due and owing by the said Richard
Harper at the time of his death, and the plain
till is advised the creditors of the said Richard
Harper have the right to have his said real
estate sold and the proceeds of such sale APP
piled to the payment of their claims accord
ing to their respective legal prioritier.
4th That the said Robert Hicks and nne
II. Hicks, his wife, and the said Sarah l. llar-
per do not reside in the State of Maryland
9th. The prayers of the bill are for sale
OF the real estate of which the said Richard
Harper died seized and possessed, or so much
thereof as may be necessary for the payment
OF his debts, for general relief and for proper
process against the defendants.
1t is thereupon, this twen,y-third day OF
August, in the year eighteen hundred and
eighty-iOur, ordered that the plaintiff cause a
copy of this order, together with the object
and substance of the bill, 10 be inserted IN
some newspaper published at Rockville, in
said Montgomery county, once n week foi
four successive weeks before the twenty third
day Of September next, giving notice 10 tn,
said Robert Hicks and Annie II. Hicks, his
wife, and Sarah l.. Harper, tho nonresident
defendants named in said bill, and warning
them to appear in this Court, in person or b,
solicitor, or before the tweniy-third day o
December next, TO show cause il any the,
have, why decree should not pass as pray ed
Il. b. PRETTYMAN, C'lk
Circuit Court for Montgomery county.
True copy-Test:
aug 29-4l Il. B. PRETTYMAN, Cpk.