Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-09-29
Order of Publication.
In the matter of the estate of Charles H.
Parker, deceased.
In the Orphans Court of Montgomery
county, Maryland.

The object OF this petition and caveat
is to procure an order revokine, rejecting
and refusing the probate of a paper writ
ing alleged to be the last will and tesla
ment of Charles H. Parker, deceased and
to declare said paper writing not to be the
last will and testament of the said Charles
H. Parker, deceased.
The petition and caveat states -
That the said Charles H. Parker departed
this life on the 18th day of August, 1915,
leaving surviving him as his only heirs-at-
law March r. McKimmie. Benjamin H.
Parker and Mabel T. 0'Donnell, the petit
TONERS. and Thomas C. Parker, Grace M.
Heiston, Eva j. Turner, Charles Albert
Parker, an infant; Carrie Esther Parker,
an infant; and Annie Margaret Parker,
an infant.
That said Charles II. Parker died seized
and possessed of tract of land contain
ing about 1855 acres in MONTGOMERY county.
Maryland, valued at about $4,000, and
another tract of land in SAID county con-
tanning 10 Sd acres, more or less. valued
at about $4,000, and another tract in said
county valued at about $1,000; a farm in
Chester county, Pennsylvania, the acreage
and value of which is unknown to your
petitioners, and other property, both real
and personal, in the District of Columbia,
pennsylvania, Maryland and elsewhere,
the extent and value of which is unknown
to petitioners.
That after the death of the said Charles
h. Parker there was exhibited at the Or
phans' Court for Montgomery county for
probate certain paper writing, dated the
3rd day of June. 1912, purportine to be
the last will and testament of the said
Charles II. Parker, deceased.
That said paper writing was admitted
to probate in the Orphans Court of Mont
gymery county, Maryland, September 18th,
1915. and is recorded in Will Book, No. 10,
at page 8.
That the petitioners object to the pro-
bate OF said paper writing as the last will
and testament Of the said Charles II.
Parker. deceased, for the following rea-
sons, tO-wit:
]. Because it is not the true last will and
testament OF the said Charles H. Parker,
deceased.
2. Because it was not executed in due
form as required by law.
3. Because the contents of said paper
writlng were not read to said Charles H. |
farker. and were not known to him at the
time OF the execution of the same.
a. Because the said Charles H. Parker at
writing. dated June 3rd, 1912, was not of
sound and disposing mind and capable of
executing a valid deed or contract.
s. Because the execution of the said
paper writing bearing date of June 3rd.
1917. was procured by undue influence
exercised and practiced upon the said
Charles II. Parker. and constrainine his
will therein so that the execution of the
said paper writing was not his free and
voluntary act.
1t is thereupon this 18th day of Septem-
Der, 1916. ordered by the Orphans Court of
MONTGOMERY county, Maryland, that the
petitioners by causing copy of this order
to be inserted in some newspaper, pub.
lished in said Montgomery county, once in |
each of four successive weeks before the |
10th day of October, 1915, give notice to
the defendants, Eva j. Turner, Thomas C. |
Parker, Grace M. Heston, Charles Albert
Parker, Carrie Esther Parker and Annie |
Margaret Parker, who are non-residents of
the State OF Maryland, of the object and
substance OF this petition. warning them
y appear in this Court, in person or by
solicitor, on or before the oath day of Oc-
tober, 1915, to show cause, II any they
have. why an order should not be passed
as prayed.
JOHN E. WEST,
WINFIELD S. MAGRUDER,
ALFRED c. FOLSOM,
Judges Of the Orphans Court of Mont
gomery county
True copy-Test:
HENRY c. ALLNUTT,
Register of Wills.
DANIEL THEW WRIGHT,
7. M. WAMPLER,
W. 0UTERBRIDGE SPATES,
Solicitors for the CaveatOrs
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