The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-03-09
No. 207S Equity.

THE OBJECT of this suit is to have Gel
tain paper writing purporting TO be a Deed
of Trust from Thomas A. Mitchell and Ida
A. Mitchell, his wife, The IL rmer now deceased,
to VIM. F.. HELEN, Trustee, dated March 2lst
1890. recorded in Liber J. w. b. IS, folio 143,
one of the Land Record Books of Prince
Georges County, Md, decl .red void.
The Bill of Conn l,inL alleges that the
plaintiff is seized in fee simple of 129 acres Of
land, situated i'll said State and county, at
Ardwick Station on the Baltimore and Poo
mac r. R., being a part Of Mtchel's SUBJ
di vision at AIdwi,k" which title he acquired
by deed from Char les A. Wells and wife dated
January 4, 1894; that the said Charles A.
Wells acquired title by deed from r. W.
Beall, formerly Sheriff of said county, dated
June 27,h 1892 and recorded in Liber }. w.
B. No. 2l folio 645, the said r w. Beall hav-
ing sold said land under two judgments of
condemnation at the suit of Charles A. Wells
VS.. Thomas A. Mitchell, one dated January
18th, 1891 aud the other April 6th, 1891,
" Inch two judgments were obtained in the
Circuit Court for Prince Georges county bas-
ed upon attachment writs issued out of said
Court and laid upon said land returned as such
TO the OciOter Term of 1890 of said Count;
that at the time of the execution of said pre-
le ded trust and the issuing of said wrts the
said I honas A. Mitchell a NONRESIDENT OF
the It lte of Maryland was indebted unto the
81 id Charles A. " ellis in the sum of about
S422.75, and being so indebted and with in
tent to defraud the said G.. A. Wells, executed
| to the said VIM. F. HELEN the paper writing
pmporting to be a deed of trust on the said
tract of and; he then owning no ether prop
erty in said county, to secure certain
promissory notes drawn by the said
Thomas A. Mitchell in favor of the said VIM.
fl x~r tl,o coiI ,1ta hno date
| tn said Trust aud being referred TO rs fol-
lows: One note for $500 payable in six
months; one for $1,000, payable in IL months;
one for $500 in Is months; one for $1,000 in "a
months; for 5000 in 56 moi tbs after date:
and that said Trust was wholly fictitious
without consideration, fraudulent and void,
| and as the bill ill ges, he, The said Thomas A.
Mitchell, not owing the said VIM. w. Hall any
| such sum or any other sum at that time, the
| said Trust operates as cloud upon the plant.
If lie to said real estate; that the defend
| ants are non residents Of the State of Mary
land. The bill prays that the said pr, ,nded
| Trust may be annuled by lis court and tina,
the notes ielein referred to, be decreed to be
| cancelled.
1t is therefore this 18th day of February
| 1894, ordered that VIM. F. HELEN, Trustee,
VIM. w. Hail, beneficiary, and the person OF
| persons holding. if any, the aforesaid trus
NJ IS, whose names are averred to be unknown
t. the plaintiff enter their appearance herein
on or before the 18th day OF March, next
otherwise the bill Of complaint may be taken
as confessed by them, provided copy of this
order shall be published in some newsp tper
published in Prince Georges County Nd
| once week for four successive weeks before
the IL day Of March, A. d. 1894, giving
the said absent defendants NJ lice Of the Object
| and substance of this bill and warning them
to be i'll this Court in person or by Solicitor
on or before the second day Of April, 1894, te
answer the premises and show cause If any
they have, why the decree should not pass a.
prayed.
JOHN Il. BROOKE, A. J.
True Copy JOHN w. Belt,
| Test: Clerk.
| DUCKETT & DENT,
| Solicitors for Pl ,intitf.