The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-04-03
No. 1902 Equity


THE object of this suit is to vacate
i and set aside a tax deed from
George w. Hardy, Treasurer of Prince
Georges County, to the defendant Fer
nando Taylor, dated April 9th, 1907,
recorded among the Land Records Of
said County, in Liber No. 80, at folio
527 thereof; and to vacate and set aside
tax sale, and the confirmation there
of by the said Court of the property
described in said tax deed, being GER
tain real estate and improvements there
on situate in Prince Georges County,
Maryland, containing 249 acres called
in said deel and tax sale simpson
Place." and commonly known as
River View" and to remove the cloud
upon the title of the plaintiff in and to
said land, and premises by the record
of said tax deed; and to enjoin the de-
PENDANT from setting up any claim to
said land and premises; and to have an
account stated of the taxes, interests,
penalties, and costs which may be due
from said land and premises.
The bill states the above facts; and
also that the plaintiff is a corporation
and the owner in fee simple of said
property under deed from "E. s.
Ran dali Steamboat and Excursion
Company" a corporation, dated May 4,
1906, and recorded among said land re-
cores in Liber No %, at folio $50 there
of, on June 1, 1896; that said ''E. s.
Randall Steamboat and Excursion
COMPANY" was the owner in fee simple
of said property under a deed from
Ephraim 8. Randall and wife dated Ju-
ly IL, 1900 and recorded among the said
land records in Liber j. B. II. at folio
SS9 thereof; that said plaintiff is now
and it and those under whom it claims
have been for more than twenty years,
in the undisturbed, peaceable, exclusive
adverse and continuous possession of
the whole of said land that said land is
situate upon the Potomac River, and
for the last twenty years has been call
ed River View" and used as a summer
resort by plaintiff and those under
whom it claims that the said defendant
Fernando Taylor, claims title to said
land and premises by virtue of said tax
deed, and tax sale thereof made in
March 1906, for county and State taxes
for the year 1904. which sale was re-
ported to said Court on April /, 1905,
and finally ratified by said Court on
March %, 1907; that said tax sale was
improperly made and void; that said
final ratification was improvidently and
improperly passed, that said tax deed
is void because never properly sealed
by the grantor therein; that plaintiff on
October II, 1907, rendered the full
amount Of taxes, interest, penalties and
costs to date of said tender, to the said
Treasurer, and the same was refused by
him; and that said Fernando Taylor
is nonresident OF the State Of Mary
land.
IT IS THEREFORE THIS third day
of March, 1908, ordered by the Circuit
Court for Prince Georges County, sit
ting in Equity, that the plaintiff, by
causing a copy of this order to be in
serted in a newspaper published in
Prince Georges County, Maryland,
once week for four successive weeks,
before the fourth day of April, A. d.
1903, give notice to the said absent de-
PENDANT; Fernando Taylor, of the OBJ
ject and substance Of this bill, warning
him to appear in this Court in person
or by attorney on or before the first
day Of May next, to show cause, if any
he have, why decree ought not to be
passed as prayed.
GEORGE c. MERRICK, A. ].
True Copy-Test:
BENZ. d. STEPHEN, Clerk
Of Circuit Court for Prince Georges
County, Md.
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