The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-10-05
OF PUBLICATION.

NO. 1904 EQUITY.
In the Circuit Court for Carroll County, in
Equity.
Adam Slater and Barbara Slater, his wife,
Mary Richter and Frederick Richter, her
husband, George Slater, Annie Horton and
Harvey Horton, her husband, Maggie Hor-
ton and William Horton, her husband, and
Charles Slater, Plaintiffs, vs. Alverta Ben
son and Louisa Benson, infants, and Lizzie
c. Slater and Emma Slater, Defendants.
The object of this suit is to procure decree
for the sale of certain real property in Carroll
county, State of Maryland, of which John
Wonder, intestate, died seized and possessed,
and which descended to and vested in the
above named plaintiffs and defendants upon
the death of the said John Wonder, deceased,
in order that the proceeds of sale may be d.
vided among those entitled according to their
respective interests.
The bill states that in April, 1901, John
Wonder died intestate seized and possessed of
about seventy acres of land, situate in Carroll
county, Maryland, and fully described in said
bill, which upon his death intesate descended
to and vested in Adam Slater, intermarried
with Barbara Slater; Mary Richter, intermar
ried with Frederick Richter; George Slater;
Annie Horton, intermarried with Harvey Hor-
ton; Maggie Horton, intermarried with Will
liam I1OrIOIl, anu OUiIItS OtdlCI, All vi WHOiH
are adults living in Carroll county, Maryland;
and Lizzie c. Slater, an adult residing in Bal
timore City, Maryland; and Emma Slater, an
adult non president of the State of Maryland,
residing in the City of Boston, State of Massa-
chusets; and Alverta Benson and Louisa Ben
son, infants, under the age of twenty-one
years. residing in Carroll county, Maryland,
as the only heirs at law of the said John Won
der, deceased. The bill further states that a
portion of said land that was devised to the
said John Wonder by George Wonder was
subject to the payment of legacy of 800 to
a certain Annie Slater, now deceased, and of
a legacy of $4,000 for life to a certain Cath
crime Benson and after her death to the chill
dren of the said Catherine Benson, and that
said two egacies charged on said land have
been fully satisfied and paid and that the said
land cannot be divided among the parties in
interest without material loss and injury TO
them and is not susceptible of partition and
division; and that it would be for the interest
of all the parties that said real estate be sold
and the proceeds thereof divided among the
parties in interest according to their respective
rights.
It is thereupon this Doth day of September,
1901, ordered by the Circuit Court for Carroll
county, in Equity, that the plaintiffs by caus-
ing copy of this order to be inserted in some
newspaper published in said Carroll county,
Maryland, once in each of four successive
weeks before the 21st day of October, 1901,
give notice to the absent defendant aforesaid
of the object and substance of this bill, warn
ing her to be and appear in this Court in per-
son or by attorney, on or before the 9TH day
of November, 1901, to show cause, if any she
have, why decree ought not to be passed as
prayed.
CHAS. r. REIFSNIDER.
Associate Judge.
True copy,-Test:
sep21 st JAS. II. BILLINGsLEA, Clerk.