The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1897-09-11
nRpER or PUBLICATION.
In the Circuit Court for Carroll Count,
sitting as Court of Equity.

III the CiTcull OOuft lOi NaltOh SV"h'9;
sitting as a Court of Equity.
NO. 1878 EQUITY.
Emma Koonfz and Emanuel Koontz, er
husband, ct al Plaintiffs, VS.. Clara c. Sell
and Mary N. Sell, ct al. Defendants.
The object of this suit is to procure de-
cree for the sale of certain real estate in Car
roll county, in the State Of Maryland, OF
which Samuel A. Klinefelter, late OF Adams
county. in the State Of Pennsylvania, died,
seized and possessed for the distribution of
the proceeds of said property amoug his
heirs.
The Bill of Complaint states that Samuel
A. Klinefelter, late of Adams county, IN the
State of Pennsylvania, departed this lite IN
August. in the year Eighteen Hundred aad
Ninety.six. intestate, seized and possessed Of
certain real estate situate, lying and being IN
Carroll county and the State of Maryland, and
being part of the same land which was con
veyed to the said Samuel A. khnefelter by
George KIinefelter and wife. by Deed, bearing
date on the Twelfth day Of March, in the year
1870, and which is recorded among the Land
Records of Carroll county, in Llber b. +. =.
No. "a, folio SIG, &c, and also part of the
same land which was conveyed to the said
Samuel A. Klinefelter by John Bupp and
wife. by Deed, bearing date on the Fifteenth
day of January, in the year 1866, and winch
is recorded among the Land Records OF Car
roll county, in Liber B. +. c., No. "a, folio
5II, &C., and also part ofthe same land which
was conveyed TO the said Samuel A. Kline
felter by George Klinefelter and wife, by
Deed, bearing date on the Twelfth day OF
March, in the yoar 1870, and which is record
ed among the Land Records of Carroll coun-
ty, in Liber F. r. s., No. so, folio 300, &c.
and also part of the same land which was
conveyed to the said Samuel A. khnefelter
by John L. Fisher, by Deed, bearing date
on the First day of June, in the year 1877,
and which is recorded among the Land
Records of Carroll county, in Liber B. f. e.,
No 81. folio sos. &c, and also part of the
same land which was conveyed to the SAID
Samuel A. Klinefelter by George klinefelter
and wife, by Deed, bearing date on the
Twelfth day of March, in the year 1870, and
which is recorded among the Land Records
of Carroll county, in Liber B. f. c., No. "a,
folio 500, &C., and also being part of the
same land which was conveyed to the said
Samuel A. Klinefelter by John w. Davidson
and wife, by Deed, bearing date on the Tenth
day of April, in the year 1873, and which is
recorded among the Land Records of Carroll
county, in Liber B. +. c., No. 81, folio 495,
&C., and being also part of the same land
which was conveyed to the said Samuel A.
Klinefelter by Matthew g. Huff and wife, by
Deed, bearing date on the Second day of De-
tober, in the year 1878, and which is record
ed among the Land Records of Carroll coun-
ty, in Liber B. +. c., No. 81, folio 489, &C.,
and also part of the same land which was
conveyed to the said Samuel A. Klinefelter
by Levi Harner, by Deed, bearing date on
the Twenty-irst day of December, in the
year 1867, and which is recorded among the
Land Records of Carroll county, in Liber B.
F. c., No. "a, folio 498, &c.
And that the said Samuel A. Klinefelter
had been in the sole and exclusive possession
of said land for more than twenty years,
holding the same adversely. continuously and
uniuterruptedly for more than twenty years
against the world.
The Bill of Complaint further states that
the said Samuel A. KlinefeIter, deceased,
left surviving him the following named chill
dren and grandchildren, who are his only
heirs at law, to-wit:-Emma koontz, IL daugh-
ter who intermarried with Emanuel Koontz;
Alice Hartman, daughter who intermarried
with H. Thomas Hartman; all of whom reside
in Carroll county and State of Maryland, Kate
+. Flickinger. "a daughter who intermarried
with Charles n Flickinger; Samuel N. Kline
felter, whose wife name is Sarah Z. Klinetel-
ter Mary d. Spanger, a daughter who inter-
married with Plus Spangler (who is now de-
ceased;) Julia NJ. Stavely, a daughter who
intermarried with George Stavely; all of
whom reside in Adams county, in the State
of Pennsylvania, and Ellen R. Sell, a daugh-
ter now deceased, who iniermarried with
RAYMOND S. Sell ald who left surviving her
the following named children who are infants
under the age of twenty -one years, to-wit:-
Clara c. Sell, Mary n SELL Daniel A. Sell,
Walter r. Sell and Alberta H. Sell, all of
whom are non -residents of the State of Mary
land, and who reside with their father, Ray
mond S. Sell in Adams county, in the State
of Pennsylvania.
The Bill of Complaint further states that
the said real estate is incapable of partition
among the parties entitled thereto and that it
would be greatly to the interest and advan-
tage of all parties in interest to have said
real estate sold and the proceeds of sale di
vided among said heirs according to their IN
terest therein.
The Bill of Complaint further prays that
said real estate may be sold and the proceeds
of sale divided among all the parties in inter-
est, land further that they may have such other
and further relief as the case may require, and
that an order of publication may be granted
against the said Clara G. Sell, Mary n. Sell,
Daniel A. Sell, Walter R. Sell and Alberta
H. Sell, the said infant defendants, who are
nOn-reSldentS OF the Otate OF MaryldHu; CIV
ing them notice of the object and substance
of said Bill of Complaint and warning them
to appear in the Circuit Court for Carroll
county, sitting as a court of equity, in person
or by solicitor on or before certain day to
be named therein, to show cause, if any they
have, why decree ought not TO be passed as
prayed.
1t is thereupon this oath day of August, in
the year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety seven.
ordered by the Circuit Court for Carroll
county, sitting as a court of equity, that the
Plaintiffs by causing copy of this order to
be inserted in some newspal,er published IN
Carroll county, once in each of four success
sive weeks before the 9th day of September
next, give notice to said nonresident infant
defendants, Clara C. Sell, Mary n. Sell, Dan
iel A. Sell, Walter r. Sell and Alberta II.
Sell, of the object and substance of their Bill
of Complaint, warning them and each OF
them to appear in this Court in person or by
solicitor, on or before the 18th day of Octo
Der next, to show cause if any they have, why
decree ought not to be passed as prayed.
BENZ. f. GROUSE, Clerk
True Copy,-Test:
Aug 2S-5t BENZ. F. GROUSE, CLERK.