The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-07-03

The object of this suit is to obtain decree con-
firming the sale of eleven lots of ground (part of
the estate of William Head, late of the City of
Baltimore, deceased made on the 18th day of
November, 1875, by the Trustee, under decree
dated the ninth of June, 1875, passed in a case
then pending in said Court in which said Charles
NJ Heald and Bertha Head, his infant child, are
plaintiffs, and John H. Head, Trustee, and said
Bertha Head, are defendants.
The bill states, that on the 22nd day of May,
1875, said Charles NJ. Head and said Bertha
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 tesla
ment, his country seat, called "Allendale," situa-
ted in Baltimore county, Maryland, near the old
Frederick Road, to said John II. Heald in trust,
for the use of said Charles NJ Head, for the term
of his natural life; and from and Immediately af-
ter his death, for the other uses and purposes
named in said will, &c. And that the County
Commissioners of Baltimore county were author
lied by certain Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland to appoint and did appoint Street Com
missioners to open streets and avenues in Balti-
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 thereby"
&c. That said Street Commissioners had laid
out an Avenue, called Edmondson Avenue, and
IL
M Head had been assessed for opening, grading
and constructing said Edmondson Avenue s., 1884 !;
and that said assessment was made by one of said
Acts lien upon said country seat, and that said
Street Commissioners were authorized to enforce the
payment thereof by a sale of said property. And
that said John II. Head Trustee, had no funds
in his hands belonging to said Charles or his said
infant daughter, to pay said assessment And
the bill in this case further states that under said
decree of the ninth of June, 1875, the Trustee
tL.-~-.ds. siI con of said lntS 10 said Charles
M. Head, and that said Charles had conveyed
one undivided half thereof to said Walter S.
Wilkinson. And that said Maccubbin de-
parted this life about the 9th of July, 1885,
leaving him surviving no widow and only one
child, said Sophia F. 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 7. Grape. And that doubts had been sug
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 to
the said lots the bill in this case is filed. 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 any one else
have any interest in the said lots. And that said
will had been construed by the Court of Appeals
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
residents of the State of Maryland: Eleanor
E. Brunt, Richard Brunt, her husband, and Mary
H. Brunt, their infant child said Bertha Head
Charles E. Head and his two infant children,
Wistar NJ. Head and JEANNE V. Head John
Cresswell Heald and his three infant children,
viz: Edward Cresswel Head, Bradley Head
and Katherine Head.
1t is thereupon adjudged and ordered by the
Circuit Court for Baltimore county this thirtieth
day of June, 1880, 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.fr day Of July, 1885,
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, 1885,
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.