The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1903-07-31


THE OBJECT of this suit is to procure
Il decree for the sale Of certain lots or
parcels of land in the Bladensburg district
of Prince Georges county in the State Of
Maryland, which was conveyed to Cath
arine G. Whelan, late of the District of
Columbia, deceased, by deed from Gustave
P. Gehring and wife dated May %, 1896,
and recorded in the Land Records of
Prince Georges county aforesaid in Liber
J. W. B. No. 80, folio SIT, etc.
The Bill states that the said Catharine
G.. Whelan, late of the District of Colum-
bia, deceased, was in her life time seized
and possessed of certain real estate situate
in the Bladensburg district of Prince
Georges county, being known as Lots l.,
2, 8, 4, Block 10, of Tuxedo, and which
are more particularly described in said
Bill; that being so seized and possessed
the said Catherine G. Whelan died in the
year 1897 interstate and left surviving her
husband. the Orator, Charles N. Whelan,
who is of full age and resides in the Dis
trct of Columbia, and left also seven
children to whom as her heirs at law, all
of whom are infants and are nonresidents
in the State CT Maryland, the said lands
have descended and whose names are as
follows: Mary Martha Whelan, Thomas
A. Whelan, Charles Nicholas Whelan, Jr.,
Harry Dalton Whelan, Franklin Joseph
Whelan, Nora Beatrice Whelan and John
A. G.. Whelan.
That an offer has been made by the
Manor Real Estate and Trust Company,
a corporation duly incorporated, to pur-
chase the said lots or parcels of land for
the sum of 5000, price at which it would
be for the interest, benefit and advantage
of the infants therein mentioned, as well
as of others interested in said land that
the same should be sold to said corpora
ton, and then proceeds to describe the
lots or parcels of land; that it would be
for the interest, benefit and advantage of
the Infants above mentioned, as we'll as
all others interested in the lands, that the
lots or parcels of land should be sold, and
that the proceeds be invested or distrib-
uted to the parties entitled thereto subject
to the supervision of the Circuit Court for
Prince Georges county in Equity; that
Charles n. Whalen consents to the sale
of his life estate in said property to which
he is entitled as widower of Catharine G.
Whelan, in order that the purchaser may
get said lots free from encumbrance by
reason of said life estate; that the said in
fants are residents of the District of Co
lumbia and are non residents of the State
of Maryland, and praying decree for
sale Of said parcels of land and for further
relief
|, is ,hereupon this 9th day of July,
1903. ordered by the Circuit Court for
Prince Georges county, in Equity, that
the plaintiffs, by causing Il copy of this
order to be inserted in some newspaper,
published in said Prince Georges county,
once in each of four successive weeks be
fore the 9Th day of August, 1908, give
notice to the said absent infant defendants
of the District Of Columbia as aforesaid,
who are non residents of the State of
Maryland of the object and substance of
the Bill of Complaint filed in this case,
thereby warning them to appear in this
Court, in person or by solicitor, on or be-
fore the Oath day of August, to show
cause, if any they have, why a decree
ought not to be passed as prayed.
JAMES B. BELT,
Clerk of Circuit Court for p G Co., Nd
True copy-test: JAMES B. BELT, Clerk.
July 10th, 19O3-5t.