Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-03-01
In the Circuit Court for Montg emery
County, as Court of Equity.
No. 1853.

V1SHE OBJECT of this suit is to OBJ
Il tain Decree for the sale of so
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 of
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 sum 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 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 aud eighty-seven, the said William
Harbert departed this life ntestate leaving
surviving him widow, viz: Della Ilarbert,
two brothers of the half blood, viz your or
ator, Daniel Norman, and certain Robert
H. Norman, who resides in the city of Balti-
mord, and Jesse Lancaster, the son of Eliza
beth l.. Norman, 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 hers-al-aw and legal
representatives of the said William Harbert
Sd. That sometime in the month of Decem-
Der, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty
seven, the said Della Hsrbert, widow of the
said William Harbert, departed this life
4th. That the said William Harbert at the
time of his death was possessed of a small
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, in the year
eighteen hundred and seventy three, and re-
corded among the Land Records OF said Mont
gomery county in Liber L. B. p, No. TO-
folies 470, &c.
9th. That administration of all and singu-
lar the goods and chattels the said William
| Harbert, deceased, hath been lately granted
by the Orphans' Court of said Montgomery
county to the defendant, John T. DeSelIum,
who in virtue thereof has possessed himself
Of the personal estate of the said William
Harbert, deceased, but the plaintiff is inform
ed, and so charges, that the same is not sufi-
cient to discharge all the debts due and ow-
ing by the said William Harbert at the time
of his death, and that he is ad yised that the
said personal estate in the hands of the said
John I DeSellum, Administrator MS afore-
said, ought 10 be applied 10 the payment of the
claims OF the plaintiff and of the other credit
ors of the said William Harbert, deceased, so
far forth as the same viii, extend, and that
any deficiency in the said personal estate
ought TO be supplied by a sale o. the real es-
tate of the said William Harbert deceased
The prayers of the bill are fog an account
of the personal estate of the said William
Harbert, deceased, and its application in due
course OF administration 10 the payment of
his debts, and for decree for the sale of his
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 this
25th day of February, in the year eighteen
hundred and eighty-nine, by the Circuit
Court for Montgomery county, as "a Court of
Equity, and the authority thereof adjudged
and ordered that the plaintiff by causing a
copy OF this order to be inserted in some
newspaper published at Rockville ,in said
Montgomery county, once in each of four sue
ressve weeks before the thittieth 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 ancwer the premises and
show cause, if any he has, why decree
ought not 10 pass as prayed.
JOHN T. VlNSON,
Judge Of the Circuit Court.
True copy-Test;
mar l-5t JAMES ANDERSON, Cl'k.