Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-03-14
PURNELL & JOHNSON, Solicitors.
CALVIN b. TAYLOR, Solicitor.
Order of Publication.
Calvin b. Taylor, Administrator cum
testamento annexo of Sarah B.
Hobbs, deceased,

Calvin b. Taylor, Administrator cum
testamento annexo of Sarah B.
Hobbs, deceased,
Eleanor Davis. Leslie Thurston, Ella
Davis, George Hobbs, Edward
Hobbs, Jr.. Sarah Bell
Hobbs and Robert
HI. Hobbs.
In the Circuit Court for Worcester
County. In Equity.
The object of this suit is to procure
decree appointing Trustee to complete
the trust contained in the last will and
testament of Sarah B. Hobbs, deceased.
and fol- the appointment of Trustee to
sell certain real estate of which the said
Sarah b. Hobbs died seized and posses
sed in Worcester County, Maryland.
The Bill states:
LIST. That one Sarah b. Hobbs, late of
Worcester County in the State of Mary
land, died about the first day of January.
in the year nineteen hundred, in the
City of Philadelphia in the State of
Pennsylvania, leaving last will and
testament duly executed to pass real and
personal property i'll this State. and AN
exemplified copy of which is now of re.
cord i'll the office of the Register of Wills
of Worcester County.
I'd. That by said last will and tesla.
ment Edward Hobbs, Sr., the husband
of the said Sarah B. Hobbs, was con
stituted sole executor of the same, but
died before qualifying as such executor.
Sd. That the plaintiff. Calvin b.
Taylor, was duly appointed administra.
tor cum testamento annexo of said last
will and testament by the Orphans
Court of Worcester County. and has
duly qualified as such.
18th. That by the first item of said last
will and testament of Sarah B. Hobbs,
deceased, she bequeathed to her sister,
Eleanor Davis, three hundred dollars;
to her niece, Lessie Thurston. fifty
dollars; to her niece, Ella Davis, one
Edward Hobbs. Jr, five dollars; to her
son, George Hobbs. five hundred dollars
to be held in trust by Edward Hobbs,
Sr.. for certain purposes, and the resi-
due of said estate was bequeathed to her
aforesaid husband, Edward Hobbs. Sr.,
during his lifetime, and at his death to
her granddaughter, Sarah Bell Hobbs,
and her grandson, Robert HI. Hobbs,
share and share alike.
9Th. That your orator administrator
cum testamento annexo as aforesaid, has
sold and disposed of all the personal
estate of said testatrix. but that the
same amounts to less than nine hun.
dred dollars and is insufficient to pay
the debts of the testatrix and the
pecuniary legacies provided i'll said
will.
9th. The Bill further alleges that it
will be necessary that new Trustee be
appointed in the place of Edward Hobbs,
Sr., deceased, named as Trustee in the
said will of Sarah B. Hobbs, deceased.
to perform and carry out the trust in
said will.
eth. That the personal estate of the
said Sarah b. Hobbs being insufficient
to pay her debts and the pecuniary
legacies in her said last will and tesla
ment. the real estate of the said Sarah
b. Hobbs in Worcester County, or so
much thereof as may be necessary,
should be decreed to be sold by Trustee
to be named by the Court.
8th. That Robert H. Hobbs is resi-.
dent of Worcester County and is a
minor under twenty one years of age,
and Eleanor Davis, Lessie Thurston.
Ella Davis, George Hobbs, Edward
Hobbs, Jr., and Sarah Bell Hobbs. are
all non. residents of the State of Mary
land, residing in the State of Pennsyl-
vania and adults, except Sarah Bell
Hobbs. who is minor.
1t is thereupon this 10Th day of Feb
ruary, 1908, ordered by the Circuit
Court for Worcester County, in Equity,
that the plaintiff, by causing copy of
this order to be inserted in some news.
paper published in said Worcester Coun-
ty once in each of four successive weeks
before the 10th day of March, 1903, give
notice to said absent defendants of the
object and substance of this Bill, warn.
ing them to appear in this Court i'm per.
son or by solicitor on or before the I'd
day of April next. to show cause, if any
they have. why a decree ought not to
be passed as prayed.
FRANCIS HENRY PURNELI., Clerk.
True Copy. Test:
FRANCIS HENRY PURNELL. Clerk.