The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-09-16
ORDER OF PUBLICATION

Salina Oester VS.. Irwin Thomas, Amy
Bowser, his wife, Anna Oester,
Adam j. Oester, Matilda Burrow.
No. 1898 Equity. In the Circuit Court
for Garrett County, Maryland.
The object of this suit is to procure
a decree declaring void deed to IT.
vim Thomas from George Oester and
Salina Oester, his wife, and declaring
void two subsequent mortgages given
by said Irwin Thomas; and to secure
the appointment of trustees to sell
the property described in the said
deed, and for other and further re-
lief.
The Bill states: That a certain
farm of approximately $50 acres of
land, was conveyed to George Oester
and Salina Oester, as tenants by the
entirities, by deed from Catherine
Diehl, duly recorded among the Land
Records of Garrett County, Maryland.
That George Oester and Salina Oes-
ter made a deed of trust of the said
farm to Edward 7. Bowser, Trustee
for Perry Bowser, to secure payment
of certain debt, said Deed of Trust
is duly recorded among the Land Rec
ords of Garrett County, Maryland,
and its validity is not questioned by
the plaintiff in these proceedings.
That except for 17A acres of said
land previously conveyed to John Cat
terman, Salina Oester and George
Oester, her husband, did convey the
aforesaid farm together with certain
personal property, to Irwin Thomas,
by deed dated the 3rd day of Novem-
Der, 1917, and recorded among the
Land Records of Garrett County,
Maryland.
That the consideration set forth in
the last mentioned deed, required the
grantee to provide a comfortable
maintenance for grantors during
their lives, and decent burial at death,
and to pay S2500.00 in cash as direct
ed in said deed; the bill further states,
that the said Thomas provided liv-
ing for said grantors, from Novem-
Der 1917, until April, 1923, at which
time grantee, totally abandoned said
farm and the grantors, said abandon
ment has continued without inter-
ruptlon to the present time, and said
grantee has not contributed toward
the support of grantors, or either of
them, did not pay funeral expenses of
George Oester, now deceased, has not
paid any part of the S2500.00 required
to be paid by condition in said deed.
That the said Irwin Thomas and wife,
executed a mortgage of said farm, to
Perry Bowser, dated June 10th, 1918,
recorded in Land and Mortgage Rec
ords of Garrett County, Maryland, to
secure the payment of $4,000 which
had been advanced by said Bowser to
said Thomas; and the said mortgage,
accepted said mortgage as security
for the money so advanced, although
he knew, or was charged with knowl-
edge, that said Thomas had only a de-
feasible title to said land, and that
security for said mortgage was liable
to be destroyed by failure of said
Thomas to complete the purchase of
said land, and that said defect in the
title of said Thomas, was apparent
upon the face of the deed to said
land to the said Irwin Thomas, the
said mortgage was later assigned by
the said Bowser, to Amy Bowser, his
wife
That the said Irwin Thomas, later
executed another mortgage of the
same property to Anna Oester, Adam
j. Oester and Matilda Burrow, dated
the Bird day of July, 1928, and record
ed among the Land and Mortgage
Records of Garrett County, Maryland.
to secure the payment of S1320S5, ad-
vanced to the said Thomas; and the
said mortgages accepted said mort
gage as security for the money adj
vanced, although they knew, or were
charged with knowledge, that the
title of said Thomas was only a de-
feasible title, APPARENT upon the face of
the deed from the said George Oes-
ter and Salina Oester, to the said
Irwin Thomas, and the said security
was liable to be destroyed through
failure of said Thomas to complete
the purchase of said land. That the
said George Oester died intestate,
sometime in the month of April, 1924.
That the aforesaid farm conveyed
by George Oester and Salina Oester,
to Irwin Thomas, is now abandoned
and is depreciating in value through
neglect, and on account of said deed
to Irwin Thomas, and later mortgages
given by said Thomas, the title of the
said Salina Oester, is under a cloud
and she can not sell it or derive any
profit therefrom on this account:
That the said deed to Irwin Thomas is
wholly without legal consideration,
is fraudulent and void, and should be
set aside, and the two mortgages
subsequently given by said Thomas.
are void as against the title of your
oratrix in and to said land.
The Bill then prays, that an order
of publication be granted giving no.
tice to Irwin Thomas, Anna Oester
and Matilda Burrow, all non-residents
of the State of Maryland, of the OBJ
ject and substance of this bill, and
warning them, and each of them, to
be and appear in this Court on a
certain day to be named therein, to
show cause. if any they have, why a