The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1905-08-11
w. BEATTY HARLAN, Solicito
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.
w. Bea tty II arlan
and others
VS..
Mary A. Bateman
and others.


ana otncrS. In Equity.
The object of this suit is to procure a decree
tor the sale OF certain real estate in Hartford
county: formerly owned by the late BENJAMIN
Stamford and now owned by the defendant
Mary y. b: eman to satisfy two mortgages
on said property.
The Bill of Complaint states:
l.. That on the I'd day of October 1857,
the late Benjamin Stamford. desiring to Sc
cure to his children. viz: Mary A. Bateman
wife of Hudson Bateman. Georgia NJ. Standi-
ford now Georgia NJ. Dicrkcr wife of Tohn
H. Dierker, Philip o. Stamford. Winfield $.
StandifUrd, Susan I Favour wife of los 6
Favour, Sarah c. Standlford and GIaiticr
Stamford, the payment of the sum of
81 ,561 80 without interest at the time of his
the said BENJAMIN Standiford's death. did by
his deed OF that date convey by way of mort
gage to his said children certain real estate
situated in the First Election District of Har-
ford county. containing ninety-two 1929
acres. more or less, and particularly described
in said deed of mortgage, which is recorded
among the Land Records of said county in
Liber A. l.. J., No. 30, folio hob, to which
mortgage there is a condition annexed that
it be void on the payment to his said child
rem of the sum of 81 567 30 without interest
during the life time of the said BENJAMIN
Standiford or at his death.
That on the Goth of June 1908 Matter
Stamford, one of the said children assigned
all his interests in said mortgage, the same
being onc-seventh interest, to w. Beatty
Harlan. one OF the compartments in said suit.
,. That afterwards, on April 18Th, 1890,
the said Benjamin Standiford being indebted
of $500 and intending o secure unto her the
payment thereof. did by his deed of that date
convey by way of mortgage unto the said
Margaret K. Harlan the same real estate de
scribed in the above mentioned first mortg gage
to which mortgage there is condition an
neXed. that it be void on payment to the
said Margaret II. Harlan of the said sum of
money with interest thereon on or before
April 18th, 1895.
3. That the said Margaret r. Harlan
died July 2Jth, 1903 and that by her last
will and testament which has been duly pro-
hated and is of record in the Orphans Court
of Hartford county, the complainant William
Beatty Harlan was constituted and appoint
ed her Executor, and that he has duly quail
fed said executor.
+. That afterwards on March Goth, 1898,
the said Benz amih Standiford by his deed OF
that date conveyed the same real estate sub
ject to said two mort cages together with all
his personal property to his daughter Mary
A. Batcman. in consideration OF the agree
ment on the part of said Mary \. Bateman
wife of Hudson Bateman. to pay the two
above mentioned mortgages, aggregatinG at
that time about $1,000, and in further con-
SideratiOn of the sum of One Thousand dol
lars,
a. That the said Mary A Bateman accept
ed said conveyance from her father, took pos
session of said personal property and OF said
real estate and had the latter transferred to
her name on the tax assessment books of
Hartford county.
g. That without the knowledge or con-
sent of the complainant. w. Beatty Harlan,
or OF the late Margaret \. Harlan, the said
cut Il large amount of wood and timber on
said mortgaged lands and sold the same,
thereby seriously and materially lessening
the security of said mortgages.
Z. That the said Benjamin died on the
95th day of March, 1905 interstate
x. That no part of said first mortgage of
$l56T.59 has been paid TO Sarah {. Standi-
ford or w. Beatty Harlan or to Matter
Staudiford from said Harlan acquired his in
terest either by the late benjamin Standi-
ford or by Mary A. Batemau. although the
time limited for the payment thereof by the
condition aforesaid has long since passed and
payment thereof has been duly demanded,
but that one-Seventh part OF said sum of
SlJ6T.50 with interest thereon from March
21th. 1908 remains due and owing to each
| of them, the said Sarah c. StandifOrd and w.
| Beatty Harlan.
| 8. That no part ofsaid principal sum ofS5OO
| OF said second mortgage has been paid either
| to the said Margaret X. Harlan during her life
or to w. Beatty Harlan her executor since
| her death although the time limited for the
| payment thereof by the condition aforesaid
| has been duly demanded, but the whole OF
said sum OF $500 with interest thereon from
February 10Th, 1S94 remains due and owing;
unto to the said w Beatty Harlan executor
| of Margaret Il. Harlan.
| 10. That the complainants are not in.
formed whether any part OF the said mort
! gage debt of S156T.59 to the children OF the
said Benjamin Stamford has been paid OF
not to the other OF said children. the deicn
| dantS i'll this suit
| II. That the defendant Georgia NJ Dicr.
| ker is a nonresident of the State of Mary
| land. being a resident Of the State of Illinois
| The Bill then asks that the defendant Mary
| y. Bateman may he dccrced to pay to the
| compiainants what may be due to them a,
aforesaid, together with theirco of suit BY
short day to be appointed for that purpos,
| or i'll default thereof that the MORTGAGE
| property he Soli to pay the amounts due the
| complainants on both said mortgages anG
| the cost of this suit.
And the Bill also asks for such other ant
| further relief as the compartments case may
require.
1t is thereupon this 10Th day OF Tuiy 100,
| ordered by the Circuit Court for Harfort
county, sitting Court OF Equity. THAI
the compliments by causing a copy Of Thu
order to be inserted in some ncwspapc
| printed and published in Hartford county
| once in each of four successive weeks titteeI
| days before the nth day of Septemb Der
| 1908, give notice to the said nonresident de
| tcndant of the object and substance of tn
| bill of complaint warning them to he and zap
pear in this Court in person or by solicito
on or before the said 18th day of September
| 1908 to show cause il any they have, why
| decree ought not to lie passed as prayed.
WIN. $. FORWOOD, IR., Clerk.
True Copy-Test:
WM. s FORWOOD. In. Clerk