Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-09-26
PURNELL & JOHNSON, Solicitors,
CALVIN B. TAYLOR, Solicitor.
Order of Publication.

|VTQeT OF publication.
Eleanora Davis. legatee. and Calvin B.
Taylor. administrator cum testamento
annero of Sarah B. Hobbs, deceased.
VS..
Lessie Thurston. Ella Davis, George
Hobbs, Sarah Bell Hobbs and Robert
HI. Hobbs.
In the Circuit Court for Worcester
County. In Equity.
The object of this suit is to procure a
decree appointing Trustee to complete
the trust contained in the last will and
testament of Sarah B. Hobbs, deceased,
and for the appointment of Trustee to
sell certain real estate of which the said
Sarah B. Hobbs died seized and possess
ed in Worcester County. Maryland.
The Bill states:
1. That one Sarah B. Hobbs. late of
Worcester County in the State of Mary
land, died about the 1st day of January.
in the year 1900, in the city of Phila.
delphia, in the State of Pennsylvania,
leaving last will and testament duly
executed to pass real and personal prop.
erty in this State, an exemplified copy
of which is now of record in the Office
of the Register of Wills of Worcester
County.
2. That by the said last will and tes.
lament Edward Hobbs, Senior, the hus.
band of the said Sarah B. Hobbs, was
constituted sole executor of the same,
but died before qualifying as such exc
cutor.
3. That your orator, Calvin B. Tay.
lor, one of the complainants, was duly
appointed administrator cum testamento
annero of said last will and testament
by the Orphans Court of Worcester
County and has duly qualified as such.
4. That by first item of said last will
and testament of Sarah B. Hobbs, de.
ceased, she bequeathed to her sister,
Eleanor Davis, one of the above named
complainants, three hundred dollars: to
her niece, Lessie Thurston, fifty dollars;
to her niece, Ella Davis, one hundred
and fifty dollars; to her son. Edward
Hobbs, Jr, who is now deceased, five
dollars; and five hundred dollars to her
son, George Hobbs, to be held in trust
by Edward Hobbs, Sr.. for certain pur.
poses, and the residue of said estate
was bequeathed to her aforesaid hus-
band. Edward Hobbs, ST., during his
life time and at his death to her grand.
daughter, Sarah Bell Hobbs, and her
grandson, Robert H. Hobbs, share and
share alike.
5. That the said Calvin B. Taylor,
administrator as aforesaid, has sold and
disposed of all the personal estate of
said testatrix. but that the same
amounts to less than nine hundred dol
lars and is insufficient to pay the debts
of the testatrix and the pecuniary legac-
les provided in said will.
6. The Bill further alleges that it
will be necessary that new Trustee be
appointed in the place of Edward
Hobbs, Sr., deceased. to perform and
carry out the trust in said will.
Z. That the personal estate of Sarah
B. Hobbs being insufficient to pay her
debts and the pecuniary legacies in her
said last will and testament, the real es-
tate of the said Sarah B. Hobbs in Wor.
cester county, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, should be decreed to
be sold by Trustee to be named by the
Court.
s. That Edward Hobbs, Jr., since the
death of Sarah B. Hobbs has departed
this life, leaving as his children and
heirs at law Sarah Bell Hobbs and Rob.
ert H. Hobbs aforesaid.
9. That Robert H. Hobbs is a resi-.
dent of Worcester County and is min
or under twenty.one years of age, and
Lessie Thurston, Ella Davis, George
Hobbs and Sarah Bell Hobbs are all
residents of the State of Maryland.
residing in the State of Pennsylvania,
and all are adults except Sarah Bell
Hobbs, who is minor.
1t is thereupon this 10th day of Sep.
tember, 1908, ordered by the Circuit
Court for Worcester County. in Equity,
that the complainants, by causing a
copy of this order to be inserted in some
newspaper published in said Worcester
County once in each of four successive
weeks before the Sd day of October,
1908. give notice to said absent defend
ants of the object and substance of this
bill. warning them to appear in this
Court in person or by solicitor or on be-
fore the Goth day of October next to
show cause, if any they have, why a
decree ought not to be passed as prayed.
FRANCIS HENRY PURNELL,
True Copy Test: Clerk.
FRANCIS HENRY PURNELL,
Clerk