Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-07-12
ORDER OF
PUBLICATION
Rachel Campbell Suggs,
Plaintiff,

Plaintiff,
VS..
Marguerite l.. Noble, Matilda
Margaret Norwood and Frank
D. Norwood, her husband,
Defendants.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY AS
A COURT OF EQUITY.
~ No. 1857 Equity.
The object of this suit is obtain
the specific performance of a con-
tract for the sale of real estate
located in Montgomery County,
Maryland.
The bill in substance states
That on April 1, 1945, the plain
tiff entered into an agreement with
the defendant, Marguerite L.
Noble, whereby the plaintiff agreed
to sell, and the defendant, Mar
guerite l.. Noble, agreed to buy
two lots of land in Montgomery
County, Maryland, to wit, Lots a
and 5 of F. B. Crosthwaite's sub
division of "Tusculum" and Scrub
by Thicket,' on Cedar Lane, in
said County and State, as shown
on Plat Book 1, Plat 88, of the
Land Records of said County, con.
tanning 10 acres of land, more OF
less, and being the same land con.
veyed unto Charles M. Campbell by
deed from John C. CLANCY, anC
others, dated June 3, 1907, and re-
corded in Liber 1914, folio 277,' and
being also the same land con.
veyed unto the plaintiff by deco
from John B. Diamond, Treasurer
and the County Commissioners OF
Montgomery County, dated May 6
1941, and recorded in Liber 831
Folio 1888, for the sum of 100000;
that Charles M. Campbell, the
father of the plaintiff, acquired
title to said land by deed from
John c. CLANCY, and others, dateC
June 3, 1907, and recorded in Libel
1914, Folio 277, of said Land Rec
ords, and devised said land unto
his wife, Mary F. Campbell, the
plaintiffs mother, who died in Sep
TENDER, 1886, leaving as her only
heir at law, the plaintiff, who in
herited said land from her moth
er; that prior to the death OF
Mary F. Campbell, j. Forest Walk.
er, then Treasurer of Montgomery
County, sold said land for taxes
due and owing for the year 1928.
20 to Thomas M. Talbot and deed
ed said land to him by deed dated
December 81, 1881, and recorded
in Liber No. 534, Folio IL, and the
said Thomas M. Talbot conveyed
said land to the defendants, Ma.
tilda Margaret Norwood and
Frank D. Norwood, her husband
by deed dated August 8, 1895, ant
recorded in Liber GOA, Folio 463
of said Land Records; that Meth.
er the said Thomas NJ. Talbot nol
the defendants, Matilda Margaret
Norwood and Frank D. Norwood
ner husband, took possession OF
occupied said land, and said LAM
has been in possession of the plain
tiff and of her mother and father
since June 3, 1907; that on April
10, 1889, j. Forest Walker, the1
Treasurer of Montgomery County
sold said land to the County Com.
missioners of said County fol
State and County taxes then due
9nd in arrears thereon, which sale
was reported to and ratified BY
the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, as appears by Item 179
in Miscellaneous Petitions 1925
and the County Commissioners oi
Montgomery County later sold tt
the plaintiff all their right, title
and interest in said land as showr
by deed from John B. Diamond
Treasurer of said County, and the
County Commissioners of sale
County, dated May 6, 1871, and Of
record in Liber 831, Folio 288; thai
the plaintiff has good title to sale
land and has stood at all time;
ready to carry out the terms Of
said contract, but the defendant
Marguerite l.. Noble, has failec
and refused to make payment
under the terms of said contract
and still refuses, although the tim
limited for payment has since
passed and although the plaintiff
has rendered her deed for sale
property, unencumbered and in fee
simple; that the defendants are al
non-residents of the State OF
Maryland and are all over the ap.
of II years.
The bill then prays that sale
agreement be specifically enforce;
and that Marguerite l.. Noble b.
decreed to pay to the plaintiff tn,
purchase money agreed to be paic
and to accept from the plaintiff
a conveyance by special warranty
deed of said land, and for such
other and further relief as the
plaintiffs case may require.
It is thereupon. this 9th day oil
June, 1945, ORDERED by the Cir.
cult Court for Montgomery Coua
ty, as Court Of Equity, that thu
plaintiff by causing a copy of this
Order to be inserted in some news
paper published in said Montgom
cry County, once a week for foul
successive weeks before the 14tE
day of July, 1915, giving notice tC
the nonresident defendants of the
object and substance of this bill
and warning them to be and ap.
pear in this Court in person OF
by solicitor, on or before the 2nC
day of August, 1945, to answer
the premises and show cause, il
any they have, why a decree ought
not to be passed as prayed.
CLAYTON X. WATKINS,