Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-08-21
ORDER OF
PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to pro-
cure a decree for the abandonment
of the hereinafter described lot of
land in Montgomery Hill, Mont
gomery County, Maryland, as here
matter prayed.
The bill in substance states as
follows:
That the petitioners Robert w.
Benner and George E. Good, as
joint tenants, were the owners Of
said subdivision Montgomery
Hill" in said county on the 18th
day of August, 1928, at the time
of the recording of the plat there
on in Plat Book No. 4 on Plat No.
381, one of the Plat Land Rec
ords of said County; and that
thereafter they conveyed said lot
No. 3 in Block lettered b, to the
County Commissioners of Mont
gomery County which is shown on
said plat as Reserved for Private
Community Play Field; by deed
dated February S, 1886, and of
record among said Land Records of
said County in Liber 6l8 at folios
Is ct. seq; and that there
after the said County Commission
ers of Montgomery County recon
veyed said lot to the said Robert
w. Benner and George Il. Good,
as joint tenants, by a deed dated
June Ia, 1916, and Of record
among said records Of said county
in liber 500 at folio Alb ct. seq,
and that no persons in said Mont
gomery Hill and no members Of
the public have ever used said lot
for private community play field
or for any other purposes since the
recording of the plat dated August
%, 1928, as aforesaid; and that
said lot has not been properly
maintained as a play field and has
been allowed to grow up into a
unsightly and undesirable place in
said community; that the said pc
titioners 5a:;re to have said lot
abandoned as a private community
play field and that an abandon
ment thereof will not damage or
injure any person or persons or
corporations and will greatly bene-
fit the property adjacent to said
lot No. 3 as well as all the prop
erty in said subdivision of Mont
gomery Hill and will enable your
petitioners to improve, utilize and
maintain it in a manner and con-
dition beneficial to the community
in which it is located.
The bill prays:
For a decree providing that all
Of said lot 3 in Block "B" be va
Gated and abandoned, free of any
further public right, claim, title
and use, and that the said lot revert
to the private property of the
said petitioners, Robert w. Ben
ner and George T.. Good. as joint
tenants, and be vested in them in
fee simple, free Of any further
claim or right of the public, and
for such other and further relief
as the petitioners case may re-
quire.
1T is THEREUPON, this 23rd
day of July, A. d., 1947, ordered
by the Circuit Court for Montgom-
cry County, Sitting as q Court OF
Equity, that the petitioners, by
causing a copy Of this order to be
inserted in some newspaper pub
lished in said Montgomery County
once in each Of four successive
weeks before the 23rd day OF
August, A. d., 1947, giving notice
Of the object and substance of this
Bill and warning all persons and
corporations TO be and appear in
this Court, in person or by SOlici-
tor, on or before the said End day
Of September, A. d., 1947, to show
cause, IL any they have, why a
decree ought not TO be passed M
prayed.
sTEDMAN PRESCOTT,
Judge Of the Circuit. Court for
Montgomery County, Sitting
as a Court Of Equity.
True Cppy-Test;
CLAYTON X. WATKINS,
'7ss Clerk