Democratic messenger., 1908-01-04
CALVIN B. TAYLOR, I so,;o;tors
JOHN w. STATION, '0'
Order of Publication.
Alfred w. Gilliss, administrator de bonis
non cum testamento annexo of Gran
vile Stokes, deceased.


Stokes.
In the Circuit Court for Worcester
County, Maryland. No. 2lS7 Chan
Gerry.
The object of this suit is to procure a
decree for the sale of the real estate of
Hiram Murray Stokes, deceased, includ
ing that held as tenant in common or CO.
parcener situated in Worcester County
in the state of Maryland, or so much
thereof as NAV be necessary, to dis
charge all the just debts due and owing
by the said Hiram Murray Stokes at
the time of his death.
The bill states
/ ia at the said Hiram Murray Stokes,
now deceased. was in his life time ex-
ecutor of the last will and testament of
certain Granville Stokes, late of the
City of Philadelphia in the State of
PENNSYLVANIA, deceased, and as such
executor as aforesaid received and col
lected certain assets, money and prop
erty of the estate of the said Granville
Stok es, deceased, amounting to the
sum of three thousand five hundred and
ninety-three dollars and siXty-six cents
and failed and neglected to account to
the said estate for the same.
2. That the said Hiram Murray
Stokes died on or about the seventh
day Of July in the year nineteen hun
dred and five in the City of Philadelphia
aforesaid, intestate, and letters of
administration upon his estate were
granted to a certain Lillian NJ. Stokes
of the said City of Philadelphia.
3. That after the death of the said
Hiram Murray Stokes a certain Alfred
w. Gilliss, of the City of Philadelphia,
in the State of Pennsylvania, was duly
appointed and qualified as administrator
de bonis non cum testamento annexo of
the estate of the said Granville Stokes.
deceased, by the Orphans Court of the
City and County of Philadelphia in the
state aforesaid.
4. That as such administrator de
bonis non cum testamento anneXo of
the estate of the said Granville
Stokes, deceased, the said Alfred w
Gilliss recovered in the Court, Common
Pleas, No 4. for the County of Phila-
delphia, in the State of Pennsylvania,
judgment against the said Lillian
NJ Stokes, administrators Of the estate
Of the said Hiram Murray Stokes,
therein called II. Murray Stokes, on the
18th day of July in the year one thou
sand nine hundred and seven. for the
sum of -four thousand thirty dollars and
eighty-seyen cents (Si030. 50, being
the amount Of the Indebtedness afore-
SAID with interest thereon to the date
of said Judgment and the sum of eight
dollars and sixty-two cents (SS. 62) costs
in said suit, which said judgment bears
interest from the date thereof. all of
which appears more fully in paper
writing filed with the bill of complaint
and marked Exhibit A. w. G.. No. /.
5. The plaintiff has had granted to
him by the Orphans Court of Worces-
ter County in the State of Maryland,
letters of administration de bonis non
cum testamento annexo on the estate
of the said Granville Stokes as will APP
pear by certificate thereof filed with
the bill Of complaint and marked Exhi-
bit w. &. No. 2.
g. That the said Hiram Murray
Stokes being so indebted as aforesaid
and also unto delivers other persons, and
having real estate of great value IN
Worcester County, Maryland, departed
this life intestate as aforesaid, leaving
surviving him as his heir at law, the
said Murray Alvin Stokes. an infant
under the age of twenty-one years, who
resides in the City of Philadelphia in
the State of Pennsylvania, and his
widow Lillian NJ. Stokes, who is an
adult above the age of twenty-one
years and lives in the City of Philadel-
phia in the State of Pennsylvania.
T. That the said Hiram Murray
Stokes left no personal estate in said
Worcester County. and no administration
has been granted by the Orphans Court
of said county.
s. That the plaintiff is informed and
believes. and therefore, charges that
the personal estate of the said Hiram
Murray Stokes is not sufficient to dis
charge all the Just debts due and owing
by the said Hiram Murray Stokes at
the time of his death. and that the de-
ficiency in the said personal estate ought
TO be supplied by sale Of all, or such
part as may be necessary, of the real
estate of the aforesaid debtor, including
that held as tenant in common or as
co-parcener.
8. That the plaintiff has been author
lied and directed by the Orphans Court
of Worcester County by its order passed
on the tenth day of December, A. ID.
1907. to institute this proceeding.
II is thereupon this twelfth day of
December. A. ID. 1907, ordered by the
Circuit Court for Worcester County,
Maryland. in Equity, that the plaintiff
by causing copy of this order to be
inserted in some newspaper published
in said Worcester County once in each
of four successive weeks before the
sixth day of January, A. d. 1908. give
notice to the said absent defendants of
the object and substance Of this bill,
warning them to appear in this court
in person or by solicitor, on or before
the thirty-frst day of January next. to
show cause. if any they have. why a
decree ought not to bepassed as prayed.
OLIVER ID. COLLINS, Clerk.
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