The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-04-06
No. 203l Equ t..

TPON cross bill filed in above ent ted
u causes conso ida'ed. and amendment
thereto, filed by Mary Il Manning, widow of
Van H. Manning, deceased, Levi ii Manning.
Van II. Manning, Mary o. Fletcher, nee
Manning, and L. &. Fletcher her husband.
and Harriet w. Manning, adult defendants;
and J. Russell Manning, Mittie Louise Man
ming, Wilkins r. Manning and Margar;t e
Eliz ibeth Manning, infant defendants in above
entitled causes by Mary Il. Manning, their
next friend, against The Ohio National Bank,
a body corporate of Washington, ID. c., and
Julius Lansburgh, of Washington, ID. c..
plaintiffs, in Equity No. 2O3l, Thomas Pun
phrey defendant in said cause No. 2O3l, Pink
ney A. Scaggs, a defendant in both causes,
and T. X. Brooks, ". Kesley Shoeph, Gustav
and James LanSburg, trading as LanSburg \
Bro, and Duane E. Fox, eli of Washington,
d. c., creditors of said estate, not parties to
said suits, F. A. Scaggs and Edward E. Franz
oni, Trustees, Il Isle f S'aggs, beneficiary, the
said r. Il. Brooks, W. kes!ey Shoeph, Gus
t,v Lansburgh and james Lansburgh trading
as Lansburgh Il Bro., Duaue e. Fox and Ed
ward F.. FranZeni, being non residents of the
State of Maryland
The object of said cross bill is to have the
count set aside and declare null and void d
sale made by Thomas Humphrey, Mortgage
OH the - day of S ptember, 1898, Of the real
estate of which Van H. Manning died seized
and upon which he resided at his death, sit
ate in Prince Georges County, Mary land, nea
Branchville on the Baltimore IL Ohio r. R.,
containing about 69s acres, and to have the
court decree that the defendants to said cross
bill shall carry out in good faith their agree
ment made with the widow aud heirs at law,
of said Van H. Manning, deceased, to protect
and If necessary pay off and discharge the
dina Pr, nh aud . L.,
deed of trust to Pinkney, y. Scaggs, trustee
for Rosie E. Scaggs, beneficiary, on said real
estate, and to take said real estate in discharge
of the debts due by said decedent as interest
should appear, at the price of $40 per acre
free from any 81 ,im Of dover by Mary L. Man
nlng, widow of Van II. Manning, deceased,
and for a general settlement of the estate, and
TO require all of the creditors of said estate to
come into this court and in this cause prove
and establish their claims as this court shall
direct and for such o.her further and general
relief as is adapted TO the nature of their case
and agreeable to equity and good conscience
The plaintiffs in their cross5ill and amenC-
ment (who are defendants in the said Equity
suits No. 2O29 and 205D say that The d,fAnd-
ants to said crosS-bl t. wit T. r. Brooks,
The Ohio National Bank, Julius L4nsburgh.
p. 4. Scaggs,, Lanshurgh II Bro, W. kesley
Shoeph, and Duane +. Fox, entered into a
positive and definite contract aid agreement,
with them the said widow and heirs of Van
II. MaLnng deceased to take and buy he
said real estate above described at the price of
Sl75 per acre, flee from dover, and out of the
same to protect and pay off the Mortgage due
to Thomas Humphrey tor $1,000, and the deed
oftrust to Pinkney A. Scaegs trustee for Rosie
+. Scaggs, beneficiary, and to credit their
claims against the sand estate with the remain
Il If ha has into Sl,n,,
appear.
They further say that the said defendants
to their said cross-5ll, violated their agree
ment and undertaking with them and submit
ted to and perm ed said real estate to be sold
by the said Thomas Humphrey III an eXparte
proceeding. and became the purchasers there
of at said foreclosure sale dough I. Il. Brooks
for the sum of $3.50 in fraud of the rights of
said widow and heirs at law Of said Van II .
Manning, deceased.
They claim that said purchase by said pat 'es
was besid?s feng in violation of their agree
ment for a grossly inadequate price not over
one third the real V, lie of the So acres Of
land, and they aver i'll their amendment tlar
no part Of the sum Of Stl3O has ever been paid
but that the said Humphrey and the sa d Rosie
+. Scaggs have both accel 'd Mortgages tor
the full amount OF the Indebtedness due
them by the ae Van II. Manning.
They ask that all OF sand creditors detendar
and all her creditors Of said deceteut, be :,
qlired to become pat rs to this cause, aud to
prove their claims in strI,'t accordance with
law before such officer this court may dir, CT
OF appoint.
The + asks for specific performance of the
agreement Of said parties 10 X" the land al
$40 per acre and that id amount BE- set Cil
against their claims WHEN proven against said
estate.
1t is thpreupon this h day OF Feb"'Iar in
tie year 1874, ordered toy the Circuit Court II
Prince Georges County, sitting III Equity,
that the p'ainiis, in this croS>bII, give notice
t the Said nOt-iesidet defendants of the o.
iects, and substance of this cros--5lll of cor
PLANT, by causing a copy of this ordrr to be
inserted IN some neW>p per published once III
each of tour successive weeks b. fore the ith
day of April. 1894. warning the said absent
defend ants to be and appear i'll this colut III
person or by solicitor on or before The I'D DAY
of April, 1894, and show cause, il any they
have, why decree should not be passed as
prayed for.
JOHN W. BELT, Il TX
of the Circuit Court tor Prince Georges Co.
True cnpy. JOHN ". BELT, Clerk.