Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-03-29


The Bill states:
LIST That the said William Harbert was in
his lifetime indebted unto the complainant
in the sum of Twcnty-four Hundred Dollars
for work and labor done and services rem
dered for a period of more than seventeen
years next preceding the death of the said
William Harbert.
I'd. That being so as aforesaid indebted
unto the plaintiff and unto divers other per-
sons in large sums of money, some time in
the month Of September, in the year eighteen
hundred and eighty-seven, the said William
Harbert departed this life intesiate leaving
surviving him widow, viz: Della Harbert,
two brothers Of the half blood, viz: your or
stor, Daniel Norman, and certain Robert
II. Norman, who resides in the city of Balti
mord, and Jesse Lancaster, the son of Eliza
beth Il. Norman, half sister of the said
William Harbert, who intermarred with
certain Abraham Lancaster, and departed
this life before the death of the said William
Earberi, leaving the said Jesse her surviv-
ing, who are the only heirs-ai-law and legal
representatives of the said William Harbert.
Sd. That sometime in the month Of Deem
Der, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty
seven, the said Della IIarbert, widow Of the
said William Iiarbert, departed this life.
4th. That the said Wllnm Harbert nj the
time OF ms uehtH WAS pOsseSstu Oh Il Slnhll
amount Of personal property and was also
seized and possessed of small tract OF land
which had been conveyed 10 him by certain
Robert b. 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 f. B. F., No. 10,
foies 40, &c.
9Th. That administration of all and singu-
lar the goods and chaitels Of the sail William
Harbert, deceased, hath been lately granted
by the Orphans Court OF said Montgomery
county to the defendant John Y. DeSellum
who IN virtue thereof has possessed himself
of the personal estate of the said William
llarbert, deceased, but the plaintiff is inform
ed, and so charges, that the same is not suff-
Gent TO discharge all the debts due and ow-
ing by the said William Harbert ut the time
of his DEATH and that he is ad gised that the
said personal estate in the hands of the said
John 7 DeSellum, Administrator as afore-
said, ought 10 be applied 10 the pay ment of the
claims OF the plaintiff and of the other credit
ors OF The said William Haibert, deceased so
far forth as the same will extend, and that
any deficiency in the said personal estate
oush, TO be supplied by sale o. the real es-
tate of the said William Iiarbert, deceased.
The prayers Of the bill are TO? an account
Of the personal estate of the said William
Harberi, deceased, and its application in due
course Of administration 10 the payment oil
his debts, and for decree for the sale Of his
real estate 10 supply any deficiency remain
ing after such application and for general
| relief
Two successive subpoenas issued against
the defendant, Robert H. Norman having
been returned "non est it is lhereupon this
18th day Of February, in the year eighteen
hundred and eiehty-nine, bv the Circuit
Court for Montgomery county, MS Court OF
| Equity, aud the authority thereof adjudged
and ordered thai the plaintiff, by causing a
copy OF this order TO be inserted ia 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 H. Nor
man of the substance and object of the hill,
and warn him TO appear in this Court, in per-
son or by solicitor, on or before the sixteenth
day OF April next to answer the premises and
show cause, il any he has, why decree
ought not TO pass as prayed.
JOHN 7. VlNSON,
Judge of the Circuit Court.
True copy fest
mar lot JAMES ANDERSON, Clk