Case Name: ORME v. CLARKE et al.
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1842-12-01
Citations: 18 F. Cas. 819
Docket Number: 
Parties: ORME v. CLARKE et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 18
Pages: 819–820

Head Matter:
Case No. 10,577.
ORME v. CLARKE et al.
[1 Hayw. & H. 114.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Dec. 1, 1842.
To Appoint a Trustee.
On the death of trustees in a deed of trust leaving infant heirs, the court, on application of the owner of the property conveyed in trust, will order the guardian of said heirs, duly appointed, to execute a deed releasing to the said owner the property so conveyed.
The complainant is the owner of a lot in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and conveyed in trust the said lot to Edward Ingle and Seth I. Todd to secure the payment of a sum of money. The debt was paid, and he prays that a trustee be appointed to release the trust. He states that Edward Ingle, one of the trustees, died and left Seth I. Todd, the survivor, who also died, leaving infant heirs.
Joseph S. Clarke, the cestui que trust, certified to the payment of the debt.
I. B. H. Smith, for complainant
P. R. Fendall, for defendants.
[Reported by John A. Hayward, Esq., .and George C. Hazleton, Esq.]

Opinion:
THE COURT
decreed as follows: This cause coming on to be heard by consent of parties on the bill and exhibits of the complainant. and the answers of Joseph S. Clarke, and of Ellen G. Todd and Thomas G. Todd, by their guardian, Thomas H. Gillis, for that purpose duly appointed under authority of a commission issuing out of this court, and in due form executed and returned, and the same having been heard and considered, it is this first day of December. 1842, by the court ordered and decreed, that all the right, title, interest and estate of the said defendants, and all of them, in and to the piece and parcel of land be conveyed and released to the said William C. Orme, his heirs and assigns, and for that purpose that 'William Ward be, and is hereby appointed guardian of said infant defendants, to execute, acknowledge and deliver as such guardian a sufficient deed therefor, and in default of such conveyance being duly executed on or before the first Monday in January, 1843,' that this decree be recorded among the said records of Washington county, to operate as a conveyance according to the act of assembly of Maryland in such case made and provided.