Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-09-08


VS..
Berta Bergdoll, Defendant.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
No. 1874 Equity.
The object of this suit is to enjoin
the defendant, Berta Bergdoll, from
selling, giving, conveying, mortgag-
ing, pledging or encumbering certain
land in Montgomery County, Mary
land, and to decree said defendant
holds title to said land as trustee
for the plaintiff, and to decree that
the defendant reconvey title to the
plaintiff and for general relief.
The bill in substance states that
on April LIST, 1888, and for a long
time prior thereto the plaintiff was
the owner in fee, of certain tract
of land, with improvements, situate
in and near Somerset, Montgomery
County, Maryland, and that by deed
dated April 1st, 1888, recorded May
18TH 1888, in the Office of the Clerk
of the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, Maryland, in liber 698, folio
289, the plaintiff conveyed to the
defendant, Berta Bergdoll, said land;
that the conveyance of the aforesaid
premises by plaintiff to defendant
was without consideration; that
plaintiff executed the aforesaid deed
to the defendant Berta Bergdoll,
with an express oral agreement be-
tween plaintiff and defendant that
the said defendant should hold title
to said premises as trustee for plain
tiff, to reconvey said premises to
plaintiff at her request or to convey
said premises to such nominee or
nominees as plaintiff might desig-
nate; that the defendant accepted
delivery of said deed to the afore-
said premises and recorded the same
upon an express verbal promise of
said defendant to plaintiff that the
said defendant should hold title to
the said premises as trustee for
plaintiff, to reconvey said premises
to plaintiff upon her request or to
convey said premises to such NOM
inee or nominees as plaintiff should
by request designate; that plaintiff
AYERS that she has made demand
upon the defendant to make, execute.
acknowledge and deliver to plaintiff
a deed of conveyance for the afore-
thereto to plaintiff, but that the de-
PENDANT has refused so to do; that
the. defendant, Berta Bergdoll, is
resident Of the Country of Germany,
and is temporarily sojourning in
Philadelphia County, in the State of
Pennsylvania, and is a nonresident
Of the State of Maryland.
The bill then prays that the de-
PENDANT be enjoined from selling,
giving, conveying, mortgaging, pledg-
ing or encumbering said land in
Montgomery County, Maryland, and
that it be decreed that said defend
ant holds title to said land as trustee
for plaintiff, and that it be decreed
that the defendant reconvey title To
the plaintiff, and for general relief.
1t is thereupon this 9th day of
August, A. d. 1888, ordered by the
Circuit Court for Montgomery Coun-
ty, as Court Of Equity, that the
plaintiff by causing a copy of this
order to be inserted in some news
paper published in said Montgomery
County, once in each of four sue
cessive weeks, before the 18th day
of September, A. d. 1898, giving
notice to the said absent defendant
OF the object and substance of this
bill, warning her to appear in this
Court, in person or by solicitor, on
or before the LIST day of October
next, to show cause, if any she
have, why a degree ought not to be
passed as prayed.
CLAYTON X. WATKINS,
Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County.
True COpy-Test:
CLAYTON X. WATKINS, Clerk. 4
ROBERT PETER. Solicitor,