The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-07-24

The object of this suit is to obtain n decrea oon.
frming the sale of eleven lots of ground (part of
the estate of William Head, late of the Citv of
Baltimore, deceased,) made on the 18th day of
November, 1875, by the Trustee, under n decree
dated the ninth of June, 1875, passed in case
then pending IN SAID Court, in which said Charles
M. Head and Bertha Head, his infant child orc
plaintiffs and John H. Head, Trustee. and said
Bertha Head, are defendants. 'N
The bill states, that on the 22nd dav of Mou
1875, said Charles M. Head and said pa-,In,
Head filed the bill in the case in which said de-
cree OF the ninth of June, 1875, was passed. and
that the bill last named, alleges that said Will
liam Head devised, by his last will and testa.
ment his country seat, called "AllendaIe0 sitna-
ted in Baltimore county, Maryland, near the old
Frederick Road, to said John H. Head. in trust
for the use of said Charles M. Head. for the term
of his natural life; and from and immediatelv o.
ter his death, for the other uses and nnrnoses
named In said will, DC. And that the Conntv
Commissioners of Baltimore county were author
ized oy certain Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland to appoint and did appoint Street Com
missioners to open streets and avenues in Ralti-
more county, not exceeding two miles from the
City limits, and to determine the damages and
benefits which any owner or owners over whose
grounds the same may pass will receive therehv D
dc. That said Street Commissioners had Ia
out an Avenue, called Edmondson Avenue. and
and
vi. Head mad been assessed for OPENING oradno
and constructing said Edmondson Avenna 81 ss1e
and that said assessment was made bv one Of sa;d
Acts lien upon said country seat, and that said
street were authorized TO the
payment thereof by sale of said property. And
that said John III. Head, Trustee had mn finds
IN MS nands belonging to said Charles or his said
infant daughter, to pay said assessment And
the bill in this further states that nnder sod
decree OF the ninth of June, 1875, the Trustee
hereunder sold ten of said lots to said CharIao
M. Head, and that said Charles had conveve1
one undivided half thereof to said WaIter g
Wilkinson. And that said Maccubbin do.
parted this lite about the 9th of July. 1874
leaving him surviving no widow and onlv one
cnlld SAID sophia T. Grape, who is entitled as
the heir at law of said Maccubbin To said lot
"Number Four" and that she is the wife of said
John L. Grape. And that doubts had been sno
gested respecting the validity of the title of The
said purchasers of said lots, because all the chill
dren OF the testator and the issue of his deceased
children living at the date of the decree of the
ninth of June, 1875, were not made parties to the
SUIT IN which the same was passed, and that for
the purpose OF curing any possible defect that
may exist in the title of the said purchasers IN
the said lots the bill in this case is fled. And
that only in the event of said Charles and his
said daughter, Bertha, dying without Issue liv-
ing at the time of his death could anv one aIsn
have any interest in the said lots And that said
will had been construed by the Court of AppeaJs
of Maryland, &c.
The bill further alleges who are the children
OF said testator now living and gives the names
and residences of all the descendants of said tes
tator and alleges that the following named are
non-residents of the State of Maryland: Eleanor
=. Brunt, Richard Brunt, her husband, and Mary
H. Brunt, their infant child said Bertha Head
Charles =. Head and his two infant children.
Wistar NJ. Head and JEANNE " Head: John
Cresswell Head and his three infant children.
viz: Edward Cress Head, Bradley Head
and Katherine Head.
1t is thereupon adjudged and ordered bv the
Circuit Court for Baltimore county, this thirtieth
day of June, 1885, that the plaintiffs by causing
copy of this order to be inserted in some weekly
newspaper published in Baltimore county, once
in each of four successive weeks before the
Thirty. first day of july, 1886,
Give notice to the said absent defendants of the
object and substance of this bill and warn them
to appear in this Court, in person or BY Solicit
tor, on or before The third day of November, 1886.
to answer the premises and show cause. if any
they have, why decree ought not to pass as
prayed.
JOHN W. SHANKLIN, Clerk.
True Copy-Test:
JOHN W. sHANKLIN, Clerk.
July 3.-5w.