Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1924-02-08

The object OF this suit is to procure
a decree for the sale of the real estate
of which the late Frederick Simms, of
Charles County, Maryland, died,
seized and possessed, for the purpose
of partition among his HERS at law
and next of kin.
The bill states that the said Freder-
lex Simms during his lifetime was
seized and possessed of tract piece,
part or parcel of land and premises
wing and situated in the Fifth Election
District of Charles County, Maryland;
that the said Frederick Simms being so
seized and possessed departed this life
sometime in the year 1900; that the
said Frederick Simms intermarried
with a certain Martha Ann Simms.
who has also departed this life.
That the said Frederick Simms de-
parted this life leaving surviving him
the following children, as his heirs at
at law and next of kin, to wit: John
Simms, son, Amelia Day, daugh-
ter James Simms, son, Frederick
Simms, son, and your Orator, Sea-
man Simms, SON
That the said John Simms is mar
ried, his wife's name being Amelia
Simms, both of whom are living, are
adults above twenty-one years, and
both of whom reside in the City OF
Washington, in the District of Colum-
bia,
Amelia Day, who intermarried with
a certain Richard Day, both of whom
are living, are adults, above twenty
one years, the said Amelia Day resid-
ing the City of Washington, in the
District of Columbia, and the said
Richard Day residing in the State OF
Pennsylvania.
James Simms who is unmarried, is
living and is an adult, above twenty
one years, and resides in the City of
Washington, in the District of Column
bia.
That the said Frederick Simms has
since departed this life. leaving sur
wing him as his heirs at law and next
ofkin his wife, a certain Louisa Simms,
one Of your Orators, and the follow
ing John Simms, brother, Amelia
Day, a sister, James Simms, brother,
and your Orator, Seaman Simms, a
brother.
That your Orator, certain Seaman
Simms, intermarried with a certain
Elizabeth Simms, one of your Orators,
both of whom are living, are adults,
above twenty-one years, and reside in
Charles County, Maryland.
That your Oratrix, Louisa Simms, is
the surviving wife of the said Freder-
lex Simms, the son of the late FIR, der
lex Simms and Martha Ann Simms, as
aforesaid; that she is living, is an
adult, above twenty-one years, and re-
sides in Charles County, Maryland.
That the said real estate is not sus-
ceptible of partition among the parties
entitled to interest therein as above
set forth without material loss and in
jury, and that in order to make divis-
ion of said interests, it will be neces-
sary that said real estate be sold. and
the proceeds thereof divided among the
parties according to their respective
interests.
Ii is thereupon this 23rd day of Jan
uary, In the year 1924, ordered by the
Circuit Court for Charles County,
Mary land, sitting in Equity, that the
plaintiffs, BY causing copy OF this
order to be inserted in some newspaper
published in Chaeles County, Mary
land, once week for four successive
weeks before the lst day OF March,
in the year 1924, give notice to the said
absent Defendants OF the object and
substance of this bill, warning them to
be and appear in this Court in per,on
or by solicitor, on or before the 10Th
day of March, 1924, to show cause,
If any they may have, why a decree
ought not TO be passed as prayed.
WARREN M. ALBRITTAIN,
Clerk Of the Circuit Court for Charles
County, Maryland.
True copy, Test:
w. NJ. ALBRITTAIN,
Clerk
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