Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-03-08
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
Daniel Norman, Plaintiff, VS.. John II.
DeSellum, Administrator Of William
IIarbert, deceased, Robert II. Nor
man and Jesse Lancaster, Defend
ants
In the Circuit Court for Montg emery
County, as Court of Equity.
No. 1853


vIyHE OBJECT of this suit is to OBJ.
IL tain Decree for the sale of SC
much of the lands whereof William Har-
bert, late of Montgomery county, died
seized and possessed as may be necessa.
ry to pay that portion of the debts oil
the said William Harbert remaining I'M
paid by the application of his personal
estate.
The Bill states:
LIST That the said William Harbert was in
his lifetime indebted unto the complainant
in the SUN Of Twenty-four Hundred Dollars
for work and labor done and services rem.
dered for period of more than seventeen
years next preceding the death of the said
William IIarbert
I'd. That being so as aforesaid indebted
unto the plaintiff and unto divers other per-
sons In large sums of money, some time ia
the month Of September, in the year eighteen
hundred and eighty seven, the said William
Harbert departed this life intestate leaving
surviving him II widow, viz Della Harbert,
two brothers of the half blood, viz: your or
ator, Daniel Norman, and certain Robert
II. Norman, who resides 10 the city Of Balli-
mord, and Jesse Lancaster, the son of Eliza
beth l.. Norman, n half sister Of the said
William Harbert, who intermarried with a
certain Abraham Lancaster, and departed
this life before the death of the said William
Harber,, leaving the said Jesse her surviv-
ing, who are the only heirs-at-law and legal
representatives of the said William Harbert.
3D.. That sometime in the month of Decem-
Der, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty
seven, the said Della Harbert, widow OF the
said William Harbert, departed this life.
4th That the said William flarbert AT the
time OF his death WAS possessed of II small
amount of personal property and was also
seized and possessed OF a small tract Of land
which had been conveyed 10 him by a certain
Robert Is. Briggs and wife, by deed bearing
date the first day OF February, ia the year
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and re-
corded among the Land Records OF said Mont
gomery county in l.iber Il. Il. p, No. 10,
fOlies 40, &c.
9th That administration Of all and singu-
lar the goods and chattels of the said William
Harbert, deceased, hath been lately granted
by the Orphans Court Of said Montgomery
county to the defendant, John T. DeSellum,
who 10 virtue thereof has possessed himself
of the personal estate of the said William
Harbert, deceased, but the plaintiff is inform
ed, and 30 charges, that the same is not sufli-
cient to discharge all the debts due and ow-
ing by the said William Harbert at the time
said personal estate 10 the hands Of the said
John + De5ellum, Administrator as afore-
said, ought to be applied TO the pay ment of the
claims Of the plaintiff and of the other credit
ors of the said William Harbert, deceased, 80
far forth as the same will extend, and that
any deficiency in the said personal estate
ought to be supplied by q sale o. the real es-
tate of the said William Harbert, deceased.
The prayers of the bill are foc AN account
OF the personal estate Of the said William
Harbert, deceased, and it's application n due
course OF administration to the payment oil
bis debts, and for decree for the sale of his
real estate to supply any deficiency remain
ing after such application and for general
relief.
Two successive subpoenas issued against
the defendant, Robert II. Norman having
been returned ''non est" it is thereupon thii
18th day OF February, in the year eighteen
hundred and eighty-nine, by the Circuit
Court for Montgomery county, as Court Of
Equity, and the authority thereof adjudged
and ordered that the plaintiff by causing q
copy of this order to be inserted in some
newspaper published at Rockville, in said
Montgomery county, once in each of four sue
cessive weeks before the thirtieth day Of March
next, give notice 10 the said Robert II. Nor
man Of the substance and object of the bill
and warn him to appear in this Court, in per
son or by solicitor, on or before the sixteenth
day OF April next to anewer the premises and
show cause, if any be has, why decree
ought not 10 pass as prayed.
JOHN T. vINSON,
Judge OF the Circuit Court.
True copy-Test:
mar l-5t JAMES ANDERSON, Crk.