Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-12-23

be the heirs at law and distributes of
John T. DeSellum had he died in
testate, Defendants. YfE tE@
FHE OBJECT OF this suit Is to procure a
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
teenth day of October, in the year eighteen
hundred and ninety-one, the said John T.
DeSellum departed this life, leaving 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 to probate by the Or
phans' Court of Montgomery county and let
tiers testamentary granted by said Court to
the plaintiffs.
That the plaintiffs have assumed the dutie,
of ADMINISTRATION, have paid all the debts OF
their testator which have come to their knowl-
edge, and that distribution of the balance
OF the estate of their testator, as directed by
the residuary clause of said will is now read y
10 be made, and they file herewith duly GER
lifted copy of their account.
That said clause in said last wi III 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 informality o.
legal iechnicality, or from any cause whatso-
ever, or If any legal error may be found or
I n ri IL. Eli
power or legal authority 10 my executors
h erelnafter named 10 correct such legal in
Formally, error or defect, so as TO 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 Presbyt terrain Church, located at
Princeton, claims under the foregoing bequest
OF said will the amount shown for distribu e
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 benefciaries 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 nonresident of the State of
Maryland. .
That John T DeSelum left certain cous 8,
whose names and residences are unknown TO
your orators and who would be his heirs at
law and distributes of his estate in case it
should be determined he died intestate.
The bill then prays that this Court may
take jurisdiction in the premises and may
constrne the said provision of said last will
ana testament and determine whether said
bequest is valid or not, and may advise and
direct your orators in the further admins
trallon 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 tor Mont
gomery county, in equity, that the plaintiffs,
ny causing copy OF this order to be inserted
10 some newspaper published in said Mont
gomery county, once in each OF four success
slve weeks before the fourteenth day of Janu-
airy, 1893, give notice 10 the said absent de-
PENDANTS of the objec, and substance of this
phi, warning them 10 appear in this Court,
IN person or by solicitor, on or before the
3lst day of January, 1898, TO show cause,
If any they have, why decree ought not to
he passed as prayed
JAMES ANDERSON, Crk
Circuit Court for Montgomery county.
True copy-Test:
dec l6-td JAMES ANDERSON, Crk.