Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1922-07-29
ORDER OF PUBLICATION


John w. Burbage, ST., and John w.
Burbage, Jr., partners trading UNI
der the firm name of J. w. Bur-
bage L. Son, Plaintiffs.
VS..
John Hanlin, Jr., and Han
lin, his wife, Horace Timmons,
Julia Timmons, Andrew J. Hanlin,
John j. Hanlin and Flore nee Han
lin. his wife, Mary A. Gallagher
and Joseph +. Gallagher, her hus-
band, William A. Hanlin and Mar
guerite Hanlin, his wife, Edward
+. Hanlin and Margaret Hanin,
his wife, Joseph +. Hanlin and
Margaret Hanlin, his wife, and
Calvin d. Taylor, Executor of John
Hanlin, ST., deceased, and the I'M
known heirs of John Hanlin, Jr.,
deceased, Defendants.
The object of this suit is to procure
a decree for the sale of certain real
estate in Worcester County, Mary
and, of which John Hanlin, ST.. died
seized, to pay the funeral expenses
and debts of the said decedent be-
cause of the insuniciency of the per-
sonal estate TO pay the same.
The bill states that the said John
Hanlin died in January, 1922, in
Worcester County, and that the plain
tiifs acted as funeral directors of the
decedent; and that there is due and
owing to them for his funeral eX-
penses $2S5.75, which funeral ex-
penses were allowed to the plaintiffs
by the Orphans Court of Worcester
County under the provisions of Arti-
Gle is, Section 218 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland;
that said real estate lies on the
CONT! road leading from Taylorville
Methodist Episcopal Church South to
the old Protestant Episcopal Brick
Church near Shovel, being the land
which was devised to the said de-
cedent by his wife by her last will
and testament; that the said John
Hanlin, ST., by his last will bequeath-
ed $4,000 and small quantity of
personal property to Horace Tin.
mons, and $4,000 and small guam
tity of other specific personal prop
erty to Julia Timmons, the balance of
his estate he willed and bequeathed
to his son, John Hanlin, ST., and
named Calvin b. Taylor, executor
of his will; that the said testator died
possessed of no personal property;
except few articles of such small
value as to be insufficient to pay the
plaintiffs debt; that no inventory of
the personal property has been made;
that many efforts have been made by
the executor of said will to find John
Hanlin, Jr., the son of the decedent,
but the atter's residence or where
abouts has not been ascertained and
is unknown to the plaintiffs; his last
known place of residence having been
Jersey City, New Jersey; and that the
residence of Andrew J. Hanlin. son of
the said devisee and grandson of
the testator is unknown; that the
plaintiffs do not know whether the
said John Hanlin, Jr, or the latter's
son, Andrew j. Hanlin, is living or
dead; and if dead, the plaintiffs do
not know who may be the heirs at
law of the said devisee or his said
son; that the said testator left the
following nephews and nieces, chill
dren of deceased brother, to wit,
John J. Hanlin, !who tntermarl'ied
with Florence Hanlin, Mary A. Gal
lagher, who intermarried with Joseph
L. Gallagher; William A. Hanlin,
who intermarried with Marguerite
Hanlin, Edward +. Hanlin, who in
termarried with Margaret Hanlin and
that said nephews and nieces, should
the said John Hanlin, Jr., and his
said son, Andrew J. Hanlin, be dead
and both intestate, and without chill
dren, would be heirs at law of the
said John Hanlin, Jr.; that the said
Calvin b. Taylor has refused to
qualify as executor of said will be-
cause of the fact that there was
substantially no personal estate left
by the said testator and that no let
ters testamentary or of administra-
ton have been granted on the estate
of the said testator; that the per-
sonal estate of the said testator is
not sufficient to discharge the plain
tiffs' said debt, and his other just
debts, if any; that the said John Han
lin, Jr., and Hanlin,
his wife, and Andrew J. Hanln, if
living, are non-residents. of the State
of Maryland, but their present place
of residence is unknown to the plain
tifrs; that the said John J. Hanlin
and wife, Mary "A. Gallagher and
husband, EdSSarf r.. Hanlin and wife,
and Josepl r sKIanIin and wife are all
non-resiilehsE, Of this State and re-
side in the city Of Philadelphia, in
the State of Pennsylvania; that the
said. William A. Hanlin and wife are
nonresident of this State and reside
in Atlantic City, in the State of New
Jersey; that the unknown heirs, if
any, of John Hanlin, Jr., are non
residents of the State of Maryland.
1t is thereupon this 26th day of