The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-10-31
PHILIP X. CLOSE, Solicitor.
0rderof Publication
James H. Harlow 4 =
George II. Porter and Wife and Others
In the Circuit Court for Cecil County
In Equity, No. 3205

The object of this suit is to procure a decree
for the sale of the real estate of which Sarah
Porter, late of Cecil county, deceased, died.
seized. and for the division of the money aris-
ing from such sale among those entitled thereto,
according to their respective rights and in
terests.
The Bill alleges that said Sarah Porter died
seized of ell those certain tracts parcels
of land constituting the Water View Farm.
situate in the Eighth Election District of Cecil
county near the village of Conowingo. contain
more or less. described in deed to the said
Sarah Porter from William E. Porter. dated
the both day of January in the year 1878 and
recorded among the Land Records of Cecil
county in Liber ]. A. d. No. 10, folio 166; that
the said Sarah Porter departed this life some
time in about the year. intestdte.
leaving surviving her her husband, William K.
Porter, and the following named children
George H. Porter, Henry T. Porter. Augustus
II. Porter A. Lee Porter Mary P. Twiddell
and Margaret E. Shaffer-her only heirs at
law : that the said William E. Porter departed
this life some time in or about the year 1903;
that the said Margaret b. Silaffer departed
this life some time in the year 1913, leaving
Last Will and Testament duly admitted to pro-
bate by the Orphans Court of Cecil county.
whereby. after providing for the payment of
c,ftair monty letrces. she devised and be-
qucathed the residue of her estate including
therein her interest in the Water View Farm
aforesaid, to her three children, Henry Porter
Shaffer. Luther P. Shaffer and Lynn NJ. Ewing.
to be equally divided among them, share and
fer and Grace, his wife, by their deed of the
l4th of May, 1914 and recorded among the
Land Records aforesaid in Liber c. X. No: 8.
folio $40, conveyed to the complainant Harlow
all their interest in and to said Water View
Farm; that the said George H. Porter has in
termarried with Kate Porter, his wife, the said
Cora Porter, his wife; the said A. Lee Porter
has intermarried with Margaret Porter. his
wife, the said Mary P. Twaddell has inter-
married with James L. Twaddell, her hus-
bapl and tha said INnn E,xin hos int
married with Cecil C. Ewing, her husband;
that the said Augustus H. Porter and Cora
Porter. his wife, A Lee Porter and Margaret
Porter, his wife, Mary p. Twaddel and James
l.. Twaddell. her husband and Henry t. Porter
are non-residents of the State of Maryland;
the said Augustus H. Porter and wife residing
Lee Porter and wife residing at Newark in
the State of Delaware the said Mary P. Twad-
dell and husband residing at Devon in Chester
County and State of Pennsylvania; and the
said Henry T. Porter residing at Greenville, IN
Mercer county and State of Pennsylvania;
that the said George H. Porter, Henry 7. Por-
ter, Augustus H; Porter. A. Lee Porter and
Mary p Twaddell are each entitled to one
sixth undivided interest in and to the afore-
said Water View Farm; the complainant
James II. Harlow, to an undivided one-eight-
eenth interest therein 4: and Luther p. Shatfer
and Lynn M. Ewing each to an undivided one
eighteenth interest therein, and that all the
owners of said undivided interests adults
above the age of twenty-one years that the
aforesaid real estate is impartibe and cannot
be divided without loss and injury to the afore-
said parties interested therein and it is to the
interest and advantage of all said parties to
have said farm sold and the proceeds divided
among them, according to their respective in
terests therein
The Bill then prays for a sale and division.
as aforesaid for further relief and for process.
1t is thereupon, this sth day of October.
1914, ordered. by the Circuit Court for Cecil
County, as a Court of Equity. that the Com
plainant by causing copy of this order to be
inserted in some newspaper published in Cecil
County once in each of four successive weeks
before the 9Th day of November, 1914, give
notice to said absent defendants of the object
and substance of this Bill, and warning them
to appear in this Court. in person by solicit
tor, on or before the gath day of November
next to show cause. il any they have. why a
decree ought not to pass, as prayed.
CECIL KIRK, Clerk
True Copy-Test:
CECIL KIRK, Clerk.
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