Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-05-31
In the Circuit Court for Montgomery county.
No. 2842 Equity

THE OBJECT of this suit is to obtain a
decree for the sale of certain real estate Of
which the late Virginia Mason died seized
and possessed for the payment Of the debts
of the said Virginia Mason.
The Bill states as follows:
That a certain Edward Mason. late Of
Montgomery county, deceased. was the
owner of tract of land containing .5247
acres, more or less, lying on the east side Of
the Seven Locks Road, in said Montgomery
county, and which is more particularly
described in Exhibit No. filed with the
bill, which the said Edward Mason OBJ
tanned from a certain Benjamin F. Hamil-
ton and wife sometime in the year 1880,
which said deed has never been recorded !;
plat and survey Of said lands are filed
with the bill and marked Exhibit No. /.
That the said Edward Mason departed
this life sometime in the year 1891, leav-
ing last will, dated June 7th. 1891. and
recorded in Liber G. C. D., No. 2, at folio 265,
copy of which is filed with the bill and
marked Exhibit No. 2. and real, to his wife,
the said Virginia Mason, to be hers for
ever, and made her his sole executrix.
That the said Edward Mason, deceased,
after obtaining the deed for said property
from the said Benjamin F. Hamilton and
same and resided thereon from that time
up to the time of his death in 1891, and
his widow, the said Virginia Mason, con-
tinued to live thereon from that time up
to the time of her death in 1912.
That the said Virginia Mason, late Of
Montgomery county, deceased, departed
this life on or about the fifteenth day of
February, A. D. 1912, whether testate or
intestate, your orator does not know, leav-
ing a sister, Rebecca Champion. who at last
accounts was living in Washington City,
in the District of Columbia, but whether
she is now living or dead your orator does
not know, and whether the said Virginia
Mason left any other heirs your orator does
not know. or whether they are residents or
non-residents of this State, and whether,
If the said Rebecca Champion is dead, she
died testate or intestate, and whether her
heirs are residents or non-residents of this
State is unknown to your orator.
That your orator has claim against
the estate of the said Virginia Mason, de-
ceased. amounting to $500 for burial
expenses, filed with the bill and marked
Exhibit No. 3, and your orator is advised
that the real estate of which the said Vir-
ginia Mason died seized and possessed is
answerable for the same.
That the said Virginia Mason left no
personal estate, and your orator is advised
that the said real estate of the said Vir-
ginia Mason, deceased, or so much thereof
as is necessary for the purpose, may be
sold for the purpose Of paying the claim of
your orator and other creditors of the said
Virginia Mason so far as the same will
extend
The bill prays for decree for the sale
Of the real estate of the said Virginia
Mason. deceased, and for the appointment
OF a trustee to make said sale. and for
other relief.
1t is thereupon this 25th day of May,
1912, ordered by the Circuit Court for Mont
gomery county, in Equity, that the plaintiff
by causing copy Of this order to be in
serted in some newspaper published in
said Montgomery county, once in each of
four successive weeks before the 29th day
OF June, 1912, 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 10th day of July next, to show cause,
il any they have, why decree ought not
to pass as prayed
JOHN L. BRUNETT, Clerk
Circuit Court for Montgomery County.
True cOpy-Test
JOHN L. BRUNETT, Clerk.
FRANK HIGGINS,
Solicitor for plaintiff.
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