Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-01-25
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
Sitting as a Court of EQUITY.
No. 7048 Equity.

The object of this suit is to procure
a decree, setting aside and annulling
deed from defendant Grace Dixie
Lowry to defendant Howard S. Dixie
and also a urporte d deed in
trust from said Howard S. Dixie and
wife to said Grace Dixie Lowry; also
in favor of the plaintiff and against
said Grace Dixie Lowry in the sum of
$4,000, with interest thereon from May
9, 1881, and declaring the same lien
against the real estate described in
said deed and deed in trust; and also
appointing a trustee to sell said real
estate, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, for the satisfaction of such
money decree in favor of the plain
tiff.
The bill states:
That for some years next prior to
the month of May, 1881, under en-
ployment by the defendant Grace Dixie
Lowry, the plaintiff rendered to her
and on her behalf continuous pro-
fessional services as an attorney and
counsellor at law, which she know
ingly accepted, and which were of the
fair and reasonable value of $4,000,
on which was paid by her $500, prior
to the termination of such employ
ment, by mutual consent, in said
month of May, 1881; that, at her re-
quest, plaintiff rendered her bill and
stated her account, to wit, on May 8,
1881, giving credit for said payment
and showing an unpaid balance for
such services of $4,000, no part of
which has been paid; that said bill
was thereafter repeatedly rendered to
said defendant by the plaintiff, and
the amount thereof was never dis
puted by her, and that there remains
due and unpaid by the defendant
Grace Dixie Lowry to the plaintiff
$4,000, with interest thereon from May
8, 1881; that, pursuant to notice from
the plaintiff to her, plaintiff instituted
an action on the law side of this court
against her thereon November A, 1888.
That, being so indebted and while
seized of the real estate in Montgom-
cry County in question, the said Grace
Dixie Lowry did on the 7th day of
November, 1888, for a pretended con-
sideration of ten dollars, convey such
land in fee simple to said Howard S.
Dixie, a nephew, who on the same day
Joined with his wife, upon a pretended
consideration of ten dollars, in pur-
ported deed in trust unto the defend
ant Grace Dixie Lowry, as trustee for
her own use for life, with remainder
to her two children, the defendants
Leonie Fevre Burgess and Robert N.
Lowry, certified copies of said respec-
tive deed and deed in trust being ex-
hibits 81" and "2" to the bill; that
the said Grace Dixie Lowry continues
to exercise dominion over the property,
which is assessed at $16,58O and con-
stituted the only real estate belonging
to her in Maryland.
That, at the time of the institution
of the action on November 4, 1888
the said Grace Dixie Lowry was also
seized and possessed, either in person
or through tenants, of real estate in
the District of Columbia of great
value, but that early in November,
1888, such properties were likewise,
upon prentended considerations of ten
dollars, conveyed by her to inter
mediaries, who, in turn, reconveyed
the same to her as trustee for said
children, subject to certain rights and
powers in her reposed, as to one such
property she being so named as trustee
for both of her said children, and for
the balance of such properties, as
trustee for her son alone.
That said deed from Grace Dixie
Lowry unto Howard S. Dixie and the
purported reconveyance of the prop
erty by said grantee and wife to
said Grace Dixie Lowry, as trustee as
aforesaid, were not made in good
faith, but the same, and each of them,