The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1891-01-22

STATE OF MAINE.
SOMERSET IS: SUP. JUD. COURT, l
DEC. TERM 1890,
oHAs. E. WARREN, Admr. in equity
MARY A. PRESCOTT ct ais
Abstract of Bill.
Bill ia dated Dec. 10. 1890, and was entered In
| 1891.
Chas. e. Warren, "A dministrator with the will
annexed Of Martha II. Wight, late OF Norridge
wock. ~ the County OF Somerset, comp lsins
That said Martha H. Wright died June ct, A.
ID. 1889, and that her will was duly proved, ap-
proved and allowed in the probate court ofsaid
That said Charles &. Warren was, on the sec.
ond Tuesday Of July, 1889. duly appointed and
qualified as administrator with the will
annexed, on the estate of said Martha H.
Wright and is still exercising said trust.
That certain of the egn,eas named in the
second Item OF said will. died prior to the de-
cease OF said testafrix, aving lineal descep.
dants. whom SAID orator namas
That certain of said legatees named In said
will, died prior to the desease OF said testatrix
leaving no lineal descendants,
That Charles H. Brick, one Of the leRatees
named 10 said will, died prior to the DECREASE OF
said testatrix, leaving no issue, but leaving an
adopted daughter, Alice P. Brick. of Augusta.
That the next Of kin and legal heirs of said
Martha II Wright, who would have received
her property, II she had died intestate, are as
named BY said orator In said bill OF complaint
Said orator further AYERS that a grave and
important question has arisen ns to the con.
stiucton and effect OF said will, to wit: Does
~. a9 saia Alice r; Brickby virtue Of said decree
the revised Statutes Of aine, and OF the amend.
Inents thereto, take such estate as would have
6 1s tasen, under said will by said Charles H.
brlcE. II he had survived, or 10 said beQuest
TO said Charles h. Brick to be treated as a
lapsed legacy and distributed according to the
rules OF law as to the distribution Of intestat
And said orator prays fot writ Of subpoena.
directed to said defendantsto the end that said
defendants may certain, truejAnd direct answer
declare the true obstruction gnd effect OF said
will and that the respective rights and interest
.! the parues. Claiming under said will may be
ADJUSTED and determined, and said orator in
formed and Instructed. what persons arc On.
titled to the estate Of said Martha 4. Wright
and IN what proportions.
sohERsIT IS: And now on
the twentieth day Of January, A. ID. 1891, it ia
ordered, that such Of raid defendants, in said
bill Of complaint, as reside out of the state Of
M Maine to VT: Emelyn q; Bi16y aud Lizzie q.
Croix and state Of Wisconsin; Abel B. Bixby, a
minor ~ under the age Of .twenty one years, Of
STAR Prairie In the State Of Wisconsin; Rebecca
Anu T. Mo,rs OF cbam Of
the state Of Kew York; Harriet r. Hunt ana
Snarles a. Hunt OF said Concord; Martha r
Hunt Of SOmerville, in the common wealth of
n massachusetts,; Simon Hunt Of Hudson, in the
state Of Wisconsin,; Lucy J. Wood and Mary
II. Davis Of Jamaica Plains, In the Common.
VS. OF Chicago. In the State Of Illinois, be, and
they ere hereby required to appear and answer
20 sald oiil OF complaint, In said court At Skow.
month from the first Tuesday Of Feb, 4. b,
issl AND that notice Of the same be given to said
deiendants BY publishing copy OF this order
OF Court and abstract Of said bill Ut Complaint
three ssperate weeks within the thirty DAYS
mex. succeeding the date Of this order, In the
S somerset Reporter, . newspaper printed at
fsEAL Attest: u. W. BRAINsRD. Clerk,
A true copy.
q sw4 Attest: N. W. BRAMRRD, Clerk.