Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1884-09-12
In the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, as o Court of Equity

VHE OBJECT of this suit is to procure
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:
lst That the said Richard Harper was ia
his lifetime indebted unto a certain William
Mullican, of said Montgomery county, ia the
sum of one hundred and twenty dollars and
sixty cents, with interest thereon from the
sixth day of June, in the year eighteen hum
dred and seventy-six, and the sum Of eight
dollars and twenty cents costs of the suit on
and by virtue OF u judgment rendered on said
sixth day of June 10 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
Mullican 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 10 the plaintiff,
bearing said date, for said sum of money and
payable three years after date with interest
ms aforesaid.
End. That being So as aforesaid, indebted
unto the plaintiff aud unto divers other per-
sons in large sums of money the said Richard
Harper, some time in the month of June, in
the year eighteen hundred and eigh,y-iour,
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 aud leaving three children,
| in t.,ts. ii ..,ss -.
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 inconsderable in
amount and value that no administration
thereon has been sued out OF the Orphans
! Court OF Montgomery county, and the plain
tiff charges that il the said Richard Harper
left any personal estate whatever, and the
plaintiff has been unable to discover any, the
same Is wholly insufficient 20 DISCHARGE the
debts doe aud owing by the said Richard
Harper at the time Of bis death, aud the plain
I'll is advised the creditors Of The said Rirhnrd
Harper base 'bs Ilsa.-l8 bass his-4.' s
estate sold and the proceeds Of such sale APP
I piled to the payment Of their caws accord
ing 10 their respective legal pFiorlier
NAhs AAAh wv 1NtN hhRtEl Alltht htitl y tftli'
l.. Hicks, his wife, aud the said Sarah l. Har-
per do not reside in the Stale of Maryland
18th. The prayers Of the bill are for u 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 reiet and Tor proper
process against the defendants.
II is thereupOn, this twenty-third day of
August, in the year eighteen huIdred and
eighty-ionr, ordered that the plaintiff cause II
copy OF this order, together with the obec,
and substance of the hill TO be inserted IN
some newspaper published al Rockville, in
said Montgomery county, once u week for
fcair successive weeks before the. twenty third
day OF September next, giving notice 10 the
said Robert Hicks aud Annie f. Hicks, his
wife, and Sarah l.. Harper, the NONRESIDENT
defendants named in said bill and warning
them To appear in this Court, in person or by
solicitor, u or before the twenty third day OF
December next 10 show cause, it any they
have, why decree shD uld not pass as prayed
Il. b. PRETTYMAN, OK
Circuit Court for Montgomery county.
True copy-Tesl;
aug 29-4l &. B. PRETTYMAN, Cpk