The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-03-14
In the
Circuit Court for Cecil County.
In No. 1858 Equity.

The object of this suit is to procure a decree
for tie sale of certain real estate situated in
described in the Bill of Complaint for the pay
ment of a mortgage debt therein set FORTH and
interest thereon, and for other relief
The Bill States
/. That heretofore to-wit, on the nineteenth
day of April, in the year Eighteen hundred
and seventy nine. William j. Galaher. being
indebted TO a certain Thomas Peterson in the
sum of Seven hundred and seventeen dollars
tS717 .00) evidenced by bond bearing the
last named date and given in penalty of
Fourteen hundred and thikty-four dollars
(sl434.00), conditioned on the payment of the
said indebtedness of Seven hundred and
seventeen dollars t$717.O0), the said William j.
Galaher and Sarah L. Gaaher did by their
deed of said nineteenth day of April. Eighteen
mortgage unto the said Thomas. Peterson GER
tain real estate lying in Cecil CohnIy, State of
Maryland, mentioned and described in said
deed to which there is condition annexed that
It shall be void on the payment by the said Will
liam J. Gallcher and Sarah l.. sGailaher, his
wife, to your Orator of the aforesaid sum of
money, according TO the tenor Of the aforesaid
bond, with interest thereon from the date
thereof, on or before the nineteenth day of
April Eighteen hundred and eighty; all OF
which will more fully and ut large appear by
reference TO the said bend, which is herewith
filed as a p TT hereof and marked Complain
ants Exhibit A. and du!y certified copy of
said mortgage, herewith filed as part hereof
and marked Complainants Exhibit b..
.. That the said bond ana mortgage were
duly assigned the twenty-eighth day of
October Eighteen hundred md ninety to
your Orator by Henry NJ. Mccullough and
Sar. n l.. Peterson, Administrators c. t. a. of
The said Thomas Peterson, who had departed
this life previous TO the said assignment: said
assignment having been duly authorized by
the Orphans Court of Cecil County and re-
corded among the Land Records Of Cecil
County in Liber A. W. M No. IL, folio 275,
as will more fully appear by reference to
Exhibit Il, aforesaid.
hot he I (,,ll b,e
since the said mortgage and assignment, de-
parted this life. and that. by his last will and
testament, dated the 25th day of July, in the
year 1894, and recorded among the Will Re-
cords of Cecil County aforesaid in Liber l, 16,
folio 1888, the said real property. which had
been mortgaged aforesaid devised by
the residui.ry clause of said will follows:
I'd Item-Ali the rest and residue of my prop
erty, real, personal and mixed. l devise and
beueath to my wife, Sarah l.. Gallaher, during
her natural life, provided she remains unmar-
ried; and it is my will that at the death of
my said wife or If she should marry again
that all my property, excepting what has been
beueathed in Item First to my son, Robert
Henry Gallaher. be sold by my Executor here
matter named and that the proceeds of said
sale after deducting the expenses incident
thereto be equally divided, share and share
Mary Frances McMaster, Ella Jane Scott,
Robert Henry Gallaher, George b. Gallaher
and William A. Gallaher.
Sd Item Il constitute and appoint my son
Robert Henry Galater to be the Executor of
this my last Will and testament, hereby re-
voking all other wills and codiciis by me here
tofore made.
4. That the said Sarah L. Calaher depart
ed this life in the month of October, Nineteen
hundred and thirteen.
.. That the said Robert Henry Gallaher
and Moie A. Gaaher his wife, and the said
George b. Galaher and Alice Gallaher, his
wife, residents of Cecil County in the
state of Maryland, but that the rest of the
said defendants are not residents of the said
Cecil County of the State of Maryland and
reside in Delaware or elsewhere outside the
jurisdiction of this Honorable Court
s. That no part of the aforesaid sum of
Seven hundred and seventeen dollars (S7l7 .00),
or the interest accruing thereon since the
nineteenth day April Nineteen hundred and
thirteen, has been paid to your Orator, al
though the tIpe limited for the payment there
of by thesf itiQn aforesaid, has passed. but
that q IL NNid sum of money and the
inter- n Z. cSis3 ~ N the nineteenth day of
Ara Z I'D and thirteen, remain
dV Yestr Oratol
NJ "A -, the defendants may
K ~ s NJ YRS set forth therein and
4 & 8 e ate may be sold for the
s. NJ Is. Abt and interest and that
YER ~ 1{f ID he such further or other
Ns8I by require.
4 1 twenty-sixth day of Feb
~ ~ X ia ordered that the plain
s.s at s II bpy of this order to be in
III hspaper published in Cecil
yltate of Maryland, once in
iif..s q g. ii #lkssive weeks before the fifth
~ 8 H. give notice to the said abb
1s ~ VI the object and substance of
Il III. III sps n i Hplaint and warning them and
f hppear in this Court in person
N y y ION or before the twenty-irst
Ixt, to show cause if any they
M free ought not to be passed as
CECIL KIRK. Clerk.
CECIL KIRK, Clerk.