Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1908-08-07
order Of Publication.
Ii .e Circuit Court for Montgomery county,
No. 242l Equity.
T. Howard Duckett

avs AfNsy
T. Howard Duckett
vs..
Johu Pettibone, if alive, or his unknown
IRIS, alienees or devisees, if dead ;
sephine A. Pettibone, wife Of John
Pottibone; William F. Bevan,
A1signee, if alive, or his unknown
ignees or representatives, If dead.
fsNBE OBJECT OF this suit is to obtain
ieclaratory decree establishing title in
aintiff by adverse possession and by
I'D hereinafter set forth. to the land fully
!, bed in the bill of complaint, paragraph
E1 therein, lying and being In the Fifth
EIsc, IN District OF Montgomery County,
Nsrg md, being part of a tract called ed
mo1ston's RANGE and containing ffty-four
asrsg I land, more or less.
yls bill states that John Pettibone acquir-
ID tHa TO said land by deed from William
An1e ION, dated March /, 1876, and duly
reco.a I'd in Liber e. B. p, No. IA, folio 359
TIA the year 1881 said land being in arrears
To- sale and county taxes, the tax collector
r sa district sold the same to William 7.
4uuel. and by deed dated May 40, 1882, and
7qy corded, marked "Plaintif's Exhibit
No be decided the land to said Jones,
who o. or about 1902 died intestate, and that
10 Of 10 heirs-at-law conveyed the land to
30 Unfit for a valuable consideration,
"Ezhtit No. 2" TO the bill, by deed dated
October 28, 1907. and duly recorded
~ y 80 liam = Jones' .oe tual
on aal O1supatlon 81 said lane hen
ned deed 10 s9s3 und held gas Die,
c, peRoaaal. n2sorlbns apd rdvsrse
4k.r.feF E,.as me az g 80 10TH,
tills tbareto-BgGlast 81 tha VoTld;
n bis death bis heirH took pcasgs on
aud aud continued u bold tle me
3, iuder claim Of right and titis ere
abiy ID cnu,inuouslY, until T. SOLD
70 the slAiudn aud the sala dam
Ike ms4-sr held adyeTss, e1clu-
orioHs, p3aesSbia and minute Fapted
~ q " saia land from tie DIST o. the
s in " 1Ae date oil this suit, nc and
81 pred cessors in title having paid Ill State
: lty taxes thereon from the date Of
| th ,ase by William T. Jones u and in
.i the year 1908.
ohm Pettibone executed mortgage
o.. property, in which his wife joined, to
e ceraln Benjamin r. Mcintyre, recorded
| hpfil J 1875, to secure note payable one
I yasr SITTER date, and on the Bird Of August,
1 lS7B, be assigned the same to William + :.
Ecysn, md the bill prays that the said
mortgage be declared void and no lien upon
said property, as not one of the owners Of
said land has ever recognized sAid mortgage
since 1882 to date, and the same should be
| released.
That the plaintiff prays that subpoena be
issued against John Peltibone, Josephine A.,
his wife, and William r. Bevan, If either or
all be alive; and If dead, for an order of
publication against the unknown heirs, dew.
isees or alienees of John Pettibone and the
assignees and personal representatives, II any /,
OF William F. Bevan, the bill alleging that
ell Of the defendants are unknown to the
plaintiff as we'll as their place of residence,
and that their heirs, alienees, dsvisees, as
signees or representatives are also IN known
to the plaintiff and that he has made every
effort to ind them out.
1t is thereupon this 29th day of July, 1908,
ordered by the Circuit Court for Montgomery
county, Md, in Equity, that the plaintiff,
by causing copy OF this order TO be inserted
in some newspaper published in said county,
once In each Of four successive weeks before
the first day of September, 1908, give notice
TO the said absent. and unknown defendants
of the object and substance of this bill, warn
ing them to appear in this Court, in person
or by solicitor, on or before the seventeenth
day OF September, 1908, to show cause, If any
they have, why decree ought not to pass al
prayed.
JOHN l.. BRUN EFT, Clerk
Circuit Court for Montgomery county.
True copy-Test:
JOHN L. BRUNETT, Clerk,
NJ. DUOKETT l. SON,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
july 3l-td