Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1925-11-21

wards of eleven thousand dollars.
The bill further alleges that said
withdrawal and re-deposit of said
money was part and parcel of the
disposition of his said estate after his
death which the said John T. NJ. Stur
gis was then and there making; that
one of the supposed trustees, said
Katherine Burnett Griffin, never &C
copied or exercised, or even knew of,
the said supposed trust, or that she
was a trustee thereunder; that no pass
book was issued by the said bank for
session of the supposed trustees, or
either Of them, during the life of said
John T. Nj. Sturgis; that no such trust
the books of sad bank was ever de-
ed, but, in fact, the said John T. NJ.
Sturgis not only never Invested him
self of the title or turned over the
possession of the said deposit to the
supposed trustees during his lifetime,
time of making said deposit and at all
intended that he should have the sole
and exclusive possession and control
of the monies in said deposit to the
same extent as he would have had if
the same had remained in his larger
deposit from which it was withdrawn,
except that he desired that after his
death it should become the property
Of the said Katherine Burnett Griffin,
if she survived him, instead of passing
into his estate so that the plaintiff
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The bill further alleges that the said
withdrawal and re-deposit of said
money and said attempt to impress
said money with trust as aforesaid
was not bona fide, but was merely
colorado and was a cunning and frau
dulent scheme to deprive the plaintiff
of that just share of her deceased
husbands property to which she was
entitled after his death, and that the
same was, should be and is, as to the
plaintiff, null and void and should be
so declared by this Court; and that
the estate of said John T. M. Sturgis
is solvent and if said estate loses said
deposit the plaintiff will be deprived
of fully one-half the amount of said
deposit.
The bill further alleges that two of
the defendants, namely,-The Citizens
Natiolal Bank of Pocomoke City and
The Citizens National Bank of POGO
moke City as executor of John L. M.
Sturgis are one and the same corpor
alton; that the said Executor is not
only unwilling to bring a suit having
the same objects as this suit, but has
refused so to do and has stated that it
feels it to be it's duty as such executor
to recognize the deposit Of which the
plaintiff complains in said bill as a
good and valid trust and to allow the
entire amount thereof to be paid to
said defendant, Katherine Burnett
Griffin; and that the said Katherine
Burnett Griffin is nonresident of
the State of Maryland, but that all
the other defendants are located in
and have their principal office in Wor-
cester County, in the State of Mary
land.
1t is thereupon, this 26th day of Oc
tober, 1925, ordered by the Circuit
Court for Worcester County, sitting
in Equity, that the plaintiff, by caus-
ing a copy of this order to be inserted
III some newspaper published in Wor-
cester County once in each of four
successive weeks before the 7th day of
December, 1925, give notice to said
absent defendant, Katherine Burnett
Griffin, of the objects and substance
of this bill, warning her to be and ap-
Gear in this Court, in person or by So
licitor, on or before the 23d day of
December next, to show cause, if any
she have, why a decree ought not to
be passed as prayed.
SUE M. COLLINS, Clerk.
True Copy-Test:
SUE M. COLLINS, Clerk.