Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-12-16
ORDER or PUBLICATION.
10 the Circuit Court for Montgomery county
sitting as Court Of Equity.
Philemon NJ. Smith and Ignatius T.
Fulks, Executors Of the last will and
testament of John T. DeSellum,
deceased, Plaintiffs,

testament of John T. DeSellum,
deceased, Plaintiffs,
The Trustees of the Theological Semi
nary Of the Presbyterian Church, To-
Gated at Princeton, and the persons
whose names and residences are un-
known to the Plaintiffs, who would
be the heirs at law and distributes Of
John T. DeSellum had he died in
testate, Defendants.
YNHE OBJECT Of this suit is to procure a
l. decree constituting the last will and tes-
lament Of John T. DeSellum, deceased, and
advising aud directing the plaintiffs in the
further administration Of the said estate.
The bill states that on or about the nine
teenth day of October, 10 the year eighteen
hundred and ninety-one, the said John T.
DeSeum 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
tiers testameutary granted by said Court to
the plaintiffs.
That the PLAINTIFF have assumed the dutiej
Of ad ministration, have paid all the debts oil
their testator which have come to their knowl-
edge, and that a distribution of the balance
of the estate OF their testator, as directed by
the residuary clause of said will is now read y
to be made, and they Gle herewith duly GER
tilted copy of their account.
That said clause In said last will and tesla.
ment is as follows: "Tben give and be.
queath all my property, real and personal
and mixed, to the Princeton Theological Sem.
mary, located at Princeton, in the State OIL
New Jersey, on the following conditions, tina,
the annual interest of the whole amount OIL
this devise shall be applied to the education
Of young men for the christian ministry Ia
said Seminary according to the act OF incor.
poration, and If through any informally o!
legal lee hnicality, or from any cause whatso.
ever, or il any legal error may be found OF
arise then ! hereby declare that give full
power or legal authority to my executors
ereinafter named to correct such legal in
Formally, error or defect, so as 10 carry ou
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 Presby terrain Church, located al
Princeton, claims under the foregoing beques
OF said will the amount shown for distribu
lion by the account of the executors.
That the complainants are advised that the
said bequest Is void for uncertainty in the
description of the bene6ciaries described in thu
same, and that il would be unsafe for them Il
pay the same 10 the said Trustees of the The
illogical Seminary ofthe Presby terrain church
at Princeton until the validity OF said beques
be determined by your Honorable Court.
That The Trustees Of the Theological Sem
mary OF the Presbyterian church, located a
Princeton, is a nonresident of the State o
Maryland
That John T DeSellum left certain cousins
whose names and residences are unknown L
your orators and who would be his heirs a
law and distributes of his estate in case i
should be determined he died intestate.
The bill then prays that this Court may
take Jurisdiction In the premises and may
construe the said provision of said last will
an d testament and determine whether said
bequest 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
10 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 10 the said absent de-
PENDANTS of the objec, and substance of thil
bill, warning them 10 appear in this Court
in person or by solicitor, on or before tn,
3lst day of January, 1893, TO show cause
IT any they have, why a decree ought not tC
be passed as prayed
JAMES ANDERSON, CPk
Circuit Court for Montgomery county.
True copy-Test:
dec l6-td JAMES ANDERSON, Crk.