Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-07-24
ORDER OF
PUBLICATION

The object of this suit is to OBJ
tain a decree declaring a certain
deed of trust to be null and void,
and for' the appointment of
Trustee or Trustees to release said
trust on the Land Records of Mont
gonery County.
The Bill states in substance as
follows: That the plaintiffs are the
owners in fee simple of all of Lots
IA, 10 and is, in Block 10, in the
subdivision known as "West Chevy
Chase Heights, Montgomery
County, Maryland, as per plat re-
corded in Plat Book 9, Plat 1876.
having acquired same by deed
dated December 80. 1924, duly re-
corded in liber 1868, folio 21O, of
the Land Records of said County;
that there appears of record among
said Land Records certain deed
of trust from F. L. Lockwood to
the defendant, Continental Trust
Company, dated April s, 1916, Sc
curing the defendant, West Chevy
Chase Land Company, in the sum
of l$1800.00, in six notes, (which
trust is recorded among said Land
Records in liber 259, folio 800; that
SAID deed of trust. is not a valid
and subsisting lien as it purports
to be, no claim or demand to any
interest or any part of the priri-
clpal thereof having been made by
the defendants or any person, firm
or corporation claiming to be the
owner or owners of the notes re-
ferfed to in said deed of trust for
more than twenty years; that said
deed of trust constitutes a cloud on
the title of the plaintiffs to said
lots, which prevents. them from
selling or otherwise disposinp of
same; that the plaintiffs believe
and therefore allege that said deed
of trust and the debt secured there
by has long since been paid and
extinguished; that, the defendant,
Continental Trust Company, re-
fuses to execute release Of said
trust, although. requested to do so.
The Bin then prays: 1er-
|, That decree may be passed
by this Honorable Court, declaring
the deed of trust, recorded in liber
259, folio 800. of said Land Rec
ords, to be null and void and of no
effect. ~
2. That this Court appoint a
trustee or trustees in the place and
stead of Continental Trust Com
pany, with full power and authority
to release the deed of trust afore-
said.
3. And for such other and fur
Their relief as the case may require.
II is thereupon this 23rd day of
July, 1947, by the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County, sitting as
a Court of Equity, and by the
authority thereof, adiudged and
ordered that the plaintiffs, by caus-
ing a copy of this Order of Pub
LEGATION to be inserted in some
newspaper published in Montgom-
cry County, once in each of four
successive weeks before the 23rd
day of August, 1947, give notice to
the said absent defendants, CONT
mental Trust Company, a banking
corporation of Washington, ID. c.
and the West Chevy Chase Land
Company, West Virginia cOrpo-
ration, non-residents Of the State
Of Maryland. Of the object and sub
stance of this Bill, warning said
corporations, and each of them, to
be and appear in this Court, by
duly authorized agent, or solicitor.
on or before the 18th day of Sen,
TENDER, 1947, and answer said Bin
and Habide by and perform such
decree as may be passed therein.
aCLAYTON X WATKINS,
Clerk of the Circuit Court for
r Montgomery County, Md.
True gCOpy-Test.
- CLAYTON x WATKINS,
10y Clerk.