Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-05-22

| ana thereafter the ,O1IlcerSf OF Salu
Association located the lot belong
ing to the said Wilson H. Hough7
ton on said plat to which he was
entitled by virtue of the ownership
of said three shares as aforesaid,
/; as the said Lot No. Is in Block II;
all of which viii more fully and
at large appear by reference to
said original certificate of stock
No. 1866 of said association in the
name of said Wilson H. Houghton,
which is filed herewith as a part
hereof and prayed to be so taken
and marked Plaintiffs Exhibit
No. 2.
IL. ja Caat the said Wilson H.
Houghton heretofore departed this
| life resident of Montgomery
County, Maryland, leaving a last
will and testament duly admitted
to probate by an order of the
Orphans Court for Montgomery
County, passed on the 18th day
of February 1880, which will. and
the order of it's probate. is of rec
ord among the records of the Office
of the Register of Wills of said
Montgomery County. Maryland, in
Will Rook P. E. w. No. IA. at
folios 355 ct seq, by which will he
devised unto the said Jennie L,
Houghton, for and during her nat
ural life, the aforesaid Lot No. 10
in Block No. IL, in the said sub
division of Washington Grove,
Maryland. as the same is laid down
on the plat aforesaid: and upon
and after her death to his son,
the plaintiff, the said William
Keys Houghton, all Of With will
more fully and at large appear by
reference to a certified copy of
said will and the order of its pro-
bate which is filed herewith as a
part hereof and PRAYED to be so
taken and marked Plaintiffs Elk
hibit No. 8. I.
~. The plaintiff, the said Will
liam Keys Houghton. alleges that
the said conveyance of the said Lot
No. Is in Block IL as well as the
other lots hereinbefore mentioned
by the said Association to the said,
Jennie L. Houghton, was executed
and recorded in error. and that the
said Jennie L. Houghton never did
claim that she was entitled to any
interest in and to said lots of
land other than the life interest
ACQUIRED therein by the will of the
said Wilson H. Houghton, deceased
as aforesaid. i.tec4
10. That the said Jennie L.,
Houghton was the wife of the said
Wilson H. Houghton, who pre-de-
ceased her and died leaving said
Jennie L. Houghton, his surviving
widow, but prior to the marriage
of the said Wilson H. Houghton
and Jennie L. Houghton, they en-
tered into pre-nuptial agreement,
by which the said Jennie L. Hough-
ton relinouished and released all
of her rights in and to all of the
lands and premises of the said
Wilson H. Houghton including the
said Lot No. Is in Block IL herein
mentioned, all of which will more
fully and at large appear by refer
ence to the original of the said pre-
nuptial agreement, which is filed
herewith as part hereof and
prayed to be so taken and marked
Plaintiffs Exhibit No. a.
The Bill prays that. the afore-
said deed from the said Washing
ton Grove Association of the Dis
trict of Columbia and Maryland,
corporation. to the said Jennie L.
Houghton dated May 26, 1897, be
cancelled, vacated. annulled, and
set aside and declared to be null
and void and of no effect, especially
so far as the same attempts to
convey said Lot No. Is in Block IL,
or any interest therein, and that
the said Jennie L. Houghton and
the said Washington Grove Asso-
citation of the District of Columbia
and Maryland, corporation, be
declared to have held said lot of
land as trustees for the said Will
son H. Houghton, his heirs.
devisees, and assigns, and that said
Honorable Court by decree, order
the said Washington Grove Asso-
citation of the District of Colum-
hia and MARYLAND and the said
Town of Washington Grove.
corporation, to convey said
Lot No. Is in said Block No. u to
the plaintiff or that a trustee be
appointed by said Court with the
power and authority to convey said
lot to said plaintiff, and for such
other and further relief as the
plaintiffs case may require.
1t is thereupon ordered this 21st
day of April, A. D., 1947, by the
Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, Sitting as a Court Of
Equity, that the plaintiff by caus-
ing a copy of this order to be IN
serted in some newspaper pub
lished in Montgomery County once
in each of four successive weeks
before the oath day Of May, 1947,
giving notice to the defendants,
the Unknown heirs of the said
Jennie l.. Houghton, late Of Mont
gomery County, deceased, of the
object and substance Of this bill
warning them to appear in this
court, in person or by solicitor, on
or before the 18th day Of June
next, to show cause, If any they
have, why the decree should not be
granted as therein prayed, and to
abide by and perform such other
orders and DEGREES which may be
passed in the premises.
CLAYTON X. WATKINS,
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