Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-12-30


testate, Defendants.
THE OBJECT of this suit is to procure q
Il decree constituting the last will and tes-
lament OF John T. DeSellum, deceased, and
advising and directing the plaintiffs in the
further administration of the said estate.
The bill states that on or about the nine
tenth day of October, 10 the year eighteen
hundred and ninety-one, the said John I.
DeSellum departed this life, leaving a last
will and testament duly executed 10 pass real
and personal property in this State.
That the said last will and testament has
been duly admitted 10 probate by the Or
phans' Court of Montgomery county and let
lers testamentary granted by said Court to
the plaintiffs.
That the plaintiffs have assumed the duties
of ad minis,ration, have paid all the debts of
their testator which have come to their knowl-
edge, and thai distribution of the balance
Of the estate Of their testator, as directed by
the resduary clause Of said will is now ready
to be made, and they file herewith a duly GER
tilted copy of their account.
That said clause in said last W ill and tesla
ment is as follows: "Then ] give and be-
queath all my property, real and personal
and mixed, TO the Princeton Theological Sem
mary, located at Princeton, in the State Of
New Jersey, on the following conditions, that
| the annual interest of the whole amount Of
this devise shall be applied to the education
of young men for the christian ministry in
said Seminary according to the act of incor-
poration, and if through any informally 0:
| legal technically, or from any cause whatso-
ever, or if any legal error may be found or
arise then ! hereby declare that | give full
| power or legal authority TO my execu tors
hereinafter named TO correct such legal in
| 70 rmality, error or defect, so as 10 carry out
my intentions as herein set forth, that the
| foregoing bequest shall be secured to said
Princeton Theological Seminary for educa-
| tional purposes as aforesaid"
| That The Trustees of the Theological Sem
| mary of the Presbyterian Church, located al
Princeton, claims under the foregoing bequest
| OF said will the amount shown for distribu =
lion by the account OF the executors.
That the compliments are ad vised that the
said bequest Is void for uncertainty in the
description OF The benehciares described in the
same, and that il would be unsafe for them to
pay The same 10 the said Trustees of The The
illogical Seminary ofthe Presby terrain church
at Princeton until the validity of said bequest
be determined BY your Honorable Court.
That The Trustees OF the Theological Sem
mary OF the Presbyterian church, located at
Princeton, is a nonresident Of the State OF
Maryland
That John 7 DeSelum left certain cousins,
whose names and residences are unknown TO
your orators and who would be his heirs at
law and distributes Of his estate in case il
should be determined he died intestate.
The bill then prags that this Court may
take jurisdiction in the premises and may
construe the said provision of said last will
and testament and determine whether said
bequesi is valid or not, and may advise and
direct your orators in the further admins
traiion Of said estate, and for such other and
further relief as their case may require.
1t is thereupon this l4th day of December,
1892, ordered by the Circuit Court for Mont
gomery county in equity, that the plaintiffs,
by causing copy OF this order TO be inserted
in some newspaper published in said Mont
gomery county, once in each of four success
sive weeks before the fourteenth day of Janu-
airy, 1893, give notice to the said absent de-
PENDANTS of the object and substance of this
bill, warning them 10 appear in this Court,
in person or by solicitor, on or before the
3lsi dav OF January, 1893, 10 show cause,
If any they have, why decree ought not to
be passed as prayed.
JAMES ANDERSON, Cpk
Circuit Court for Montgomery county.
True copy--Test:
dee l6-td JAMES ANDERSON, Crk.