Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1908-08-21

TIME OBJECT Of this suit 10 to obtain q
Il declaratory decree establishing title In
the plaintiff by adverse possession and by
deed, hereinafter set forth, to the land fully
described In the bill Of complaint, paragraph
No. Z therein, lying and being in the Fifth
Election District Of Montgomery County,
Maryland, being part of a tract called ed
monston's Range" and containing ffty-four
acres of land, more or less.
The bill states that John Pettibone acquir-
ed title to said land by deed from William
Anderson, dated March l, 1876, and duly
recorded in Llber E. b. p, No. IA, folio $50
that In the year 1881 said land being In arrears
for State and county taxes, the tax collector
Of said district sold the same to William T.
Jones, and by deed dated May 40. 1882, and
duly recorded, marked "Plaintit's Exhibit
No. L." he decided the land to said Jones,
who on or about 1902 died intestate, and that
all of his heirs-at-law conveyed the land to
the plaintiff for valuable consideration,
exhibit No. q" to the bill, by deed dated
October 20, 1907, and duly recorded.
That the said William 4. Jones took actual
possession and occupation Of said land when
he obtained . deed in 1882 and held the sole,
exclusive, peaceable, notorious and adverse
possession thereof until the date Of his death,
claiming title thereto against all the world;
that upon his death his heirs took possession
of said land and continued 10 hold the same
adversely, under claim Of right and title there
to, peaceably and continuously, until they sold
the same to the plaintiff, and the said plain
tiff has In like manner held adverse, exclu-
sive, notorious, pesceable and uninterrupted
possession of said land from the date OF the
deed to him to the date of this suit, he and
his predecessors in title having paid all State
and county taxes thereon from the date Of
the purchase by William 7. Jones to and In
elusive Of the year 1908.
That John Pettibone executed mortgage
on said property, in which his wife Joined, to
q certain Benjamin F. Mcintyre, recorded
April /, 1876, TO secure o note payable one
year after date, and on the 3rd Of August,
1876, he assigned the same to William +.
Bevan, and 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 Pettibone, Josephine A.,
his wife, and William r. Bevan, If either or
all be alive; and II 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
all 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 unk nown
to the plaintiff and that he has made every
effort to find 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 10 appear in this Court, In person
or by solicitor on or before the seventeenth
day .; September, 1903, 70 show cause, If any
they have, why decree ought not to pass az
prayed.
JOHN L. BRUNETT, Clerk
Circuit Court for Montgomery county.
True copy-Test:
JOHN L. BRUNETT, Oletk
NJ. DUCKETT & son,
Attorneys for Plaintiff
July 3l-td