The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-05-20

| TTNHE OBJECT of this bill is to procure
i Il decree to sell the real estate whereof
Catherine +. Adams, Il widow, died seized.
and for the division of the proceeds of said
sale among those entitled: and for the APP
| pointment of Il receiver or receivers Pn-
! Il pte ire.
/ The original and amended bill in this
case shows that Catherine p. Adams died
on the 23rd day of January, 1897, a widow,
interstate and without issue, seized of real
, estate situate in Prince Georges, Charles
and St Marys counties. Maryland, lcav
| ing as her sole heirs at law, two sisters.
Mary f. Bowling. wife Of Benjamin F.
| Bowling, Susan r. Lawrence, wife of
| Mortimer 5. Lawrence, ST., and the fol
| lowing nephews and Il niece children of
Ann NJ. Estep, Il deceased sister, viz:
Thomas b. Estep, unmarried, George Nor
ton Estep, whose wife is Estep,
| Richard c. Estep, widower, John f. Estcp,
whose wife is Mollie EStep, Joseph Shaw
Estep. Charles H. Estep. whose wife is
Katie Estep, Margaret Fernette or Ere
| nette and DR.. Fernette or Ere
Estcp; that the said Margaret Fernette or
| Frenettc and DIR. Fernette or
| Frcnettc, her husband, and Richard c.
| EStep are non residents of the State of
| Maryland, that it is unknown whether the
said Margaret is living or dead. and if she
/ G dead then, it is unknown who are her
| heirs at law: that the Orphans Court for
| Prince George county, Maryland. granted
letters OF administration upon the personal
| estate of said decedent to Mary f. Bowl
| ing, who has passed her first account as
such, which shows payment of the costs
of the administration, and payment of the
| funeral expenses and all debts of her de-
cedent save certain mortgage debts charged
| upon said real estate, that the said William
Walter Estcp conveyed his interest in
said real estate to Lee S. Meyer, who with
the said Mary f. Bowling. Susan r. Law
renee, Thomas B. Estcp, George Morton
| Estcp, Richard c. Estep, John Edgar
Estep and the said Margaret Fernette or
| Frcnrtte If she be living or if she be dead
| then the unknown heirs of the said Mar
garet, are seized as tenents in common of
| said real estate. which consists of: about
| five hundred acres of land near Mechan-
| iCsville, St, Mary's county, Md, about one
| thousand acres of land near the villages
of Woodyille Crossing and Benedict, and
| three small houses in Benedict, Charles
county, Maryland. and about one hundred
acres of land near Aquasco, Prince
Georges county, Maryland: which said
real estate cannot be divided without loss
| or injury to the parties interested, where
| fore they are entitled to have sale thereof
and division of the proceeds of said sale
| among them; and that there is now no one
| legally authorized to collect the rents of
SAID real estate and pay the taxes and ex-
penses thereon.
The prayers are for a sale of said real
nSt At and 10 anpniptDrnpt af ranaynr
or receivers peRdente lite
1t is thereupon ordered this 9th day of
May, 1898 by the Circuit Court for Prince
Georges county, in Equity, that the plain
| titfs, by causing copy of this order to be
published in some weekly newspaper in
Prince Georges county, once a week for
each of four successive weeks before the
| 18th day of June, 1898, give notice to the
said non residents, Richard c. Estep, Mar
garet Fernette or Frenette and DR..
Fernette or Frenette her husband, and
the unknown heirs of the said Margaret
Fernette or Frenette, of the object and
substance of this bill, warning them to be
and appear in this Court in person or by
solicitor on or before the 2Sth day of June
next, to show cause if any they have, why
a decree as prayed should not be passed
against them.
JAMES Il. BELT.
Clerk of the Circuit Court for p g. Co.
| True copy-test: JAMES b. BELT, Clerk.
MAY 18th, lS9S-5t.