Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-06-28
ORDER OF
PUBLICATION
Rachel Campbell Suggs,
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 /, 1915, the plain
tiff entered into an agreement with
the defendant, Marguerite L.,
Noble, whereby the plaintiff agreed
to sell, and the defendant, Mar
guerite j.. Noble, agreed to buy
two lots of land in Montgomery
County, Maryland, to wit, Lots 4
and of F. B. Crosthwaite's sub
division of "Tusculum" and Grub
by Thicket,' on Cedar Lane, in
said County and State, as shown
on Plat Book l, Plat 88, of the
Land Records Of said County, con-
tanning 10 acres of land, more or
less, and being the same land con
veyed unto Charles M. Campbell by
deed from John C. Clancy, and
others, dated June 3, 1907, and re-
corded in Liber 1874, folio 277, and
being also the same land con
veyed unto the plaintiff by deed
from John B. Diamond, Treasurer,
and the County Commissioners of
Montgomery County, dated May 6.
1941, and recorded in Liber 891,
Folio 288, 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, dated
June 3, 1907, and recorded in Liber
194, 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
err, 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, 1885, and
recorded in Liber 604, Folio 1853,
of said Land Records; that Meth
er the said Thomas NJ. Talbot, nor
the defendants, Matilda Margaret
Norwood and Frank d. Norwood,
her husband, took possession or
occupied said land, and said land
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 then
Treasurer of Montgomery County,
sold said land to the County Com
missioners of said County for
State and County taxes then due
and 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 of
Montgomery County later sold to
the plaintiff all their right, title
and interest in said land as shown
by deed from John B. Diamond,
Treasurer of said County, and the
County Commissioners of said
County, dated May 6, 1871, and of
record in Liber 831, Folio 288; that
the plaintiff has good title to said
land and has stood at all times
ready to carry out the terms of
said contract, but the defendant,
Marguerite L. Noble, has failed
and refused to make payment
under the terms of said contract,
and Still refuses, although the time
limited for payment has since
passed and although the plaintiff
has rendered her a deed for said
property, unencumbered and in fee
simple; that the defendants are all
non-residents of the State of
Maryland and are all over the age
of 81 years.
The bill then prays that said
agreement be specifically enforced
and that Marguerite L. Noble be
decreed to pay to the plaintiff the
purchase money agreed to be paid
and to accept from the plaintiff
conveyance by special warranty
deed of said land, and for such
other and further relief as the
plaintiffs case may require.
1t is thereupon, this 9th day of
June, 1945, ORDERED by the Cir
cult Court for Montgomery Coun-
ty, as Court of Equity, that the
plaintiff by causing copy of this
Order to be inserted in some news
paper published in said Montgom-
cry County, once a week for four
successive weeks before the 14th
day of July, 1945, giving notice to
the nonresident defendants of the
object and substance of this bill
and warning them to be and APP
pear in this Court in person or
by solicitor, on or before the End
day of August, 1945, to answer
the premises and show cause, if
any they have, why a decree ought
not to be passed as prayed.
CLAYTON X. WATKINS.
Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County.