The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1916-12-29
In the Circuit Court for Prince
Georges County, Maryland,
No, 1929 Equity

No. 1929 Equity
YNHE object of this suit is to obtain
l. decree for the sale for the purposes
Of partition of a house and lot i'll the
town of Laurel, Prince Georges Coun-
Ly, Maryland, said property being more
particularly described in Exhibit No 1
filed with the Bill of Complaint The
Bill i'll su bstance states, that Jane F.
Shaffer died intestate, in said County
and State, during the year 1918, seized
and possessed at the time of her death
of the house and lot alb I'VE mentioned
and that her husband CnArles F. Shaft
er, ST., has since died. That the sole
heirs at law of the said Jane F. Shaffer
are Cd son the Comp lainant, W liam
G. Shaffer, whose wife is Susie Shatfer;
(2) A daughter the Defendant, Laura
A. Waters, whose husband is Randolph
R. Waters; GAS the Defendant A.
Clinton Shatfer, wldower, (4) A son,
| the Defends Frank Shaffer, whose wife
is May Shaffer, (5l A grandson the De-
PENDANT E. Whyland Shaffer whose
wife is Elizabeth Shatfer, he being the
sole heir at law of Charles F. Shaffer,
/ Jr. son of the said Jane F. Snaffer.
and who predeceased the said Jane F.
| Shaffer, Co. A son the Defendant David
Shaffer, unmarried, 60 A grand daught-
er the Defendant Edith Hoskins, whose
husband is Eugene Hosk,ns, Also
granddaughter the Defendant Frances
Thomas, whose husband is Oscar
| Thomas. Also granddaughter Myra
| Shaffer, unmarried, the sal ! Defendants
Edith Hoskins, Frances Thomas and My
"a Shaffer, being the sole heirs al law of
Henry Shaffer, son of the said Jane
u No
said Jane F. Shaffer, (S) A grandson
the Defendant Charles A. Jardin whose
wife's christian name is unknown TO the
| Com plainants. A grand daughter the
| Defendant Madeline Payne whose hus-
bands christian name is unknown TO
your Com plainants. A grandson the
| Defendant Percy Jardin, the Defen-
dants Charles A. Jardin, Madeline
Payne and Percy Jardin, being the sole
heirs at low of Myra JardiD, d daughter
of the said Jane F. Shaffer who pre-
| deceased the said Jane F. Shatfer.
| That the SAID real estate is not suscep-
| tible of partition in kind without loss
| and injury to the parties interested
| therein and each Of them and that it
| would be to the benefit and advantage
| of the parties Complainant and Defen-
| dant to have said real estate sold under
decree of this Honorable Court and the
proceeds of sale, after the payment of
costs and expenses divided amongst the
| parties entitled according to their re-
spective interests therein.
That all of the parties both Complain
ant and Defendant are residents of
Prince Georges County, State of Mary
land, except the Defendants Edith
Hoskins and Eugene Hoskins, he's hus-
baud who are non-residents of The State
of Maryland, residing at Lamoyne in
the State of Pennsylvania, and except
the Defendants Frances Thomas and
Oscar Thomas, Ter husband, and Myra
Shaffer unmarried and Charlie A. Jar
din and his wire, and
Madeline, Payne and---Payne, her
husband, and Percy Jardin, who are
non-residents of the Sta of Maryland
| aud residing in the District of Columbia.
That all of the parties both Complain
ant and Defendant are adults except
the Defendant Madeline Payne who is
| an infant between the ages of Is and
81 years of age and the Defendant
Percy Jardin, who is an infant under
the age of 81 wears of age. The Bill
prays for decree for sale and distr-
button as aforesaid and for general re-
lief 1t is thereupon on this 29th, day
of November, 1916, ordered bv the
Circuit Court for Prince Georges
County, in Equity, that the Complain
ants by causing a copy of this order
to be inserted in some weekly news
paper published in Prince Georges
County, Md, once a week in each of
four successive weeks before the 80 l.
day of December, 1916, give notice to
the absent Defendants Edith Hoskins
and Eugene Hoskius, her husband,
Frances Thomas and Oscar Thomas,
her husband. Myra Shaffer, unmarried,
Charles A. Jardin and----Jardin
his wife, Madeline Payne, infant, and
[---Payne, her husband, and Percy
Jardin, infant, of the object and sub
stance of the Bill of Complaint, warn
| ing them and each of them to be and
appear in this Court on or before the
18th day of January, 1917 to show
cause, if any, he, she or they may have
why decree should not be passed as
prayed.
| S. D. HALL, Clerk
| Circuit Court Ior Prince Georges
County, Nd
True Copy-Test:
s. D. HALL. Clerk. Dec. 1st