Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-03-23

rVNHE OBJECT Of this suit is to procure
l. the sale of certain land in Montgomery
county, belonging TO the devisees OF Samuel
Queen, late of the District of Columbia, de-
ceased.
The bill states that said Queen, on or about
the Goth day of April, 1885, departed this
life, leaving last will and testament, duly
executed TO pass real estate. That said last
will and testament was duly admitted 10 pro-
bate by the Supreme Court Of the District Of
Columbia, holding special session for Orphans
Court business, and that properly authenti-
Gated copy OF the same was duly recorded in
the Office of the Register of Wills for Mont
gomery county, in which he devised to said
Ann W. Queen and her heirs certain real es
tate which is particularly described in the
bill and accompan, ing exhibits, in trust, to
cell the same and divide the proceeds between
said A mn Queen, his wife, and his four chill
dren, AlonZo, Louisa, Burnetta and Marga-
ret A. Queen, equally, "share and share
alike" but said sale not to take place until
the youngest daughter is twenty-one years OF
age.
That Alonzo Queen, some time on or about
the l4th day of February, 1886, departed this
| life intesate, unmarried aud without issue.
That Louisa intermarried with a certain
Charles Johnson of said District of Coum-
bia.
That BuTnetta Queen and Margaret A.
| Queen are infants under twenty-one years of
age.
That said land is unimproved by any build
ings, and does not yield regular income.
That the taxes for the years 1886 and 1887
are due and in arrear, and that there are no
| funds out of which the taxes can be paid, and
that the land is liable to be sold to pay the
same, and that 10 permit the land 20 be sold
/ for the purpose of collecting the taxes would
| be 10 the great loss and injury of said infants
and the others interested therein.
That said land is depreciating in value and
| prod ctiveness.
That the youngest daughter is in her seven
teenh year, and the lands cannot be sold by
said Ann w. Queen by virtue of the power of
sale con tai ned in said last will and testament
for four years, and that in the meantime it
will have at least deprecated one-half in value
| because of its untenantable condition.
| That land III its vicinity is now selling at
| greatly enhanced prices by reason OF spec
| uiative feeling towards real estate prevailing
in said vicinity which nav at any moment
cease, and that if it should be sold so as to
realize the benefits of the present enhanced
value of real estate it would bring, in the
opinion of said complainant fully double the
amount it would bring should the speculative
values suddenly cease.
That it would be for the interest and ad-
VANTAGE of the infants and all others interest
ed therein to sell said land and invest said
infants shares in some good fund for their
benefit, and to distribute the balance among
the others according TO their interest therein.
And that all the parties reside out of the
| State.
1t is thereupon adjudged and ordered that
the complainant, by causing copy of this
order to be inserted in some newspaper pub
lished al Rockville in said Montgomery couu-
| ", once in each Of four successive weeks be-
| fore the 3 st day of March next, give notice
TO the said Louisa Johnson and Charles John
son, her husband, Burnetta Queen and Mar
garet A. Queen, Of the objects and substance
of this bill, and warn them 10 appear in this
! Court, in person or bv solicitor, on or before
the I'd day of July next, to answer the prem
ises and show cause, if any they have, why
a decree ought not to pass as prayed.
JAMES ANDERSON, Crk
Circuit Court for Montgomery county.
JAMES DAWSON,
mar 2-5t Solicitor for Complainant.