The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-02-28
In the
Circuit Court for Cecil County.
In No. 3l5S Equity.

The object of this suit is to procure a decree
for the sale of certain real estate situated in
described in the Bill of Complaint for the pay.
ment of 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 }. Gallaher, being
indebted to a certain Thomas Peterson in the
sum of Seven hundred and seventeen dollars
ts717.0O), evidenced by bond herring the
last named date and given in penalty OF
Fourteen hundred and thikty-four dollars
t$l43400l conditioned on the payment OF the
said Indebtedness of Seven hundred and
seventeen dollars tS717.00), the said William J.
Galaher and Sarah l.. Gallaher did, by their
deed of sail nineteenth dry Of April. Eighteen
hundred and seventy-nine, convey by way oil
mortgage unto the said Thomas Peterson GER
tain real estate lying in Cecil CohnJy, State OF
Maryland. mentioned end described in said
deed to which there is condition annexed that
it shall be void on the payment by the said VIII
liam j. Gallcher and Sarah L. Gailaher, 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 md ut large anpcnr hv
reference to the said bond, which is herewith
filed as Il p ri hereof and marked Complain
ants Exhibit A. end duly certified copy OF
seal mortgage. herewith filed as pirt hereof
and marked Compliments Exhibit b..
duly assigned the twentyeightn day of
October. Eighteen hundred nd ninety to
your Or tor by Henry NJ. Mccullough and
Sarah 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. II, folio 275.
will more fully appear by reference to
Exhibit b. aforesaid.
g. That the said william J. Gllaher has.
since the said mortgage and assignment de-
parted this life, and that, by his list will and
testament, dated the 18th day of July. in the
yefr 1894, and recorded among the Will Re-
cords of Cecil County aforesaid in Liber l, IS,
folio 3sS, the said real property, which had
been mortgaged AS aforesaid, was devised by
I'd Item-Ali the rest and residue of my prop
.rty, reel, personal and mixed. devise and
beuecth to ny wife, Sarah L. Gallaher, during
her N, tural life, provided she remains unmar.
ried and it is my will that at the death of
my said wife or If she should Merry again
that all my property, excepting what has been
beueathed in Item First to my son. Robert
Henry Catcher. be sold by my Executor here
nafter named and that the proceeds of said
sale. after deductng the expenses incident
thereto be equclly divided, snare and share
like. amongst my children Anna E. Hughes,
Mary Frances McMaster. Ella jane Scott,
Robert Henry GalIaher. George b. Gallaher
and William A. Gaiaher.
Sd Item Il constitute and appoint my
this my last will and testament, hereby re-
voking Ill other wills ana couic.is ny
tofore made.
a. That the si.id Sarah l.. Gnllaher depart
ed this life in the month of October, Nineteen
hundred and thirteen.
g. That the said Robert Henry Gallaher
and Moie A. Gallaher his wife. and the said
George b. Gallaher and Alice Gallaher, his
State of Maryland, but thar the rest of the
said defendants not residents of the said
Cecil County or of the State OF Maryland, and
reside in Delaware or elsewhere outside the
jurisdiction of this Honorable Court.
6. That no part of the aforesaid sum of
Seven hundred and seventeen dollars ts7l7.00),
the interest accruing thereon since the
nineteenth day of April, Nineteen hundred and
though the time limited for the payment there
of by the condition aforesaid, has passed. but
that the whole of said sum Of money and the
interest thereon from the nineteenth day of
April Nineteen hundred and thirteen, remain
due and owing to your Orator
The Bill prays that the defendants may an
the several matters set forth therein and
that the said real estate may be sold for the
payment of the said debt and interest and that
the plaintiff may have such further or other
relief as his case may require.
1t is thereupon this twenty-sixth day of Feb
ruary, in the year 1914 ordered that the plain
tiff, by causing copy of this order to be in
serted in some newspaper published in Cecil
County in the State of Maryland. once in
each of four successive weeks before the fifth
day of April, next give notice to the said abb
sent defendants of the object and substance of
said Bill of Complaint and warming them and
each of them to appear in this Court in person
day of April next. to show cause if any they
have why decree ought not to be passed
prayed.
CECIL KIRK, Clerk.
CECIL KIRK, Clerk.
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