The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-11-06

Kenneth Beckman, Adelaide Beck
man, Hervey Mellinger and Vida
Mellinger, defendants.
No. 2542 Equity. In the Circuit Court
for Garrett County, Maryland.
The object Of this suit is to pro
cure q decree Of the Circuit Court
for Garrett County, Maryland, for the
sale of certain real estate in said Gar
rett County Of which Mary Elizabeth
Steiding died, seized and possessed.
The Bill states:
/ l. That Mary Elizabeth Steiding,
late of Garrett County, Maryland, de-
ceased, was in her lifetime and at
the time Of her death seized and pos
sessed of a certain lot, piece or parcel
of land situate, lying and being in
Garrett County, Maryland, known
and designated as Military Lot No.
1904, containing the quantity, as now
established of approximately eighty
acres, and which was conveyed unto
the said Mary Elizabeth Steiding by
two deeds, as follows: The first from
Edmund Jamison, Sheriff of Garrett
County, dated the 18th day of Octo-
Der, 1882, and recorded in Liber W.
H. T., No. 6, folio 692, etc, one Of the
Land Records of Garrett County, and
the second from Richard Smith ct al,
heirs at law of John A. Smith, de-
ceased, bearing date the Bird day of
December, 1884, and duly recorded in
Liber W. H. T., No, 9, folio ATT, one
of the said Land Records, the origi-
mails of both of which said deeds are
filed among the papers in this case.
2. That while so seized and pos
sessed of the said real estate, the said
Mary Elizabeth Steiding departed
this life, intestate, at her home in
Garrett County, Maryland, on or
about the 21st day of March, 1901,
leaving surviving her her husband
Bernhart Steiding, who later departed
this life, intestate, on the 9TH day of
July, 1919, and the following children
and heirs at law, to-wit: John E.
Steiding, son, now q widOwer, Her
man Steiding, q son, who intermarrieJ
with Susan Steiding; Albert Steiding,
a son, who intermarried with Eliza
Steiding; Wilhelmina Steiding, a sin
gle daughter; Elizabeth Steiding, a
daughter, now Elizabeth Wiley, wild
ow of Jacob Wiley; and Augusta
Steiding Beckman, a daughter, who
intermarried with Charles 7. Beck
man, and who has since departed this
life, intestate, in the month of July,
1918, leaving surviving her as her
heirs at law the said Charles T. Beck
man, her husband, and the following
children, to-Wit: Virginia Beckman, a
daughter, who has intermarried with
Clyde Newton; Nellie z. Beckman, a
/ daughter, who has intermarried with
c. Lee Carroll; Leona Beckman, a
daughter, who has intermarried with
| William Fl. Smith; Kenneth Beckman,
son, and Adelaide Beckman, a
daughter, both single then as now;
and Blanche Beckman, a daughter,
who later intermarried with Harvey
Mellinger and has departed this life,
intestate, leaving surviving her, as
her heirs at law, her husband, the
said Harvey L. Mellinger and Vida
Mellinger, an infant daughter, all of
! the said heirs at law Of the said Mary
Elizabeth Steiding now being of full
age except Kenneth Beckman, Ade-
laide Beckman and Vida Mellinger,
| all three of whom are minors under
the age Of twenty-one years.
3. That the said real estate is not
susceptible of partition in kind with
out material loss and injury to the
parties entitled to interests therein,
and in order to make division of
said interests it will be necessary that
said real estate be sold and the pro-
ceeds thereof distributed according to
| law.
4. That it Will be for the benefit
and advantage Of all of the said par
ties, and especially of said infants,
that the said real estate be sold and
the proceeds thereof, so far as the in
terests of said infants are concerned,
be invested in some more productive
fund for their benefit, and the balance
distributed to those entitled to the
same.
The bill then prays for a decree for
the sale Of the said real estate and
that the proceeds therefrom may be
distributed between the plaintiffs and
defendants according to their re-
spective rights and interests, for gen
eral relief and for the writ of sup
boena to be issued for the said defen-
dants.
By later petition filed on behalf
of the said plaintiff on the 10th day
of April, 1924, alleging that the said
Adelaide Beckman is now temporarily
residing in the State of Michigan and
praying for the issuance of the or
der of publication as to this defend
ant an order was obtained from the
Court granting and directing the said
order of publication.
1t is thereupon this 5th day of
November, 1924, ordered by the Cir
cult Court for Garrett County, Mary
land, in Equity, that the plaintiffs,
by having copy of this order to be
inserted in some newspaper published
in Garrett County once in each of
four successive weeks before the 9Th
day of December, 1924, give notice to
the said absent defendant, Adelaide
Beckman, of the object and substance
of this bill, warning her to appear in
this Court in person or by solicitor,
on or before the 22nd day of Deem
Der, 1924, to show cause, if any she
has, why decree should not be pas
sed as prayed
E. z. TOWER, Clerk.
True copy-Test:
E. z. TOWER, Clerk. 37-5t