Gilpin v. Carroll

The appellee, Mary M. Carroll, a citizen of the District of Columbia, filed a bill of complaint, on May i, 1899, in the Circuit Court for Cecil County, for the sale of certain mortgaged real estate situate near the town of Elkton in that county, which had been conveyed to her by John and Thomas Gilpin, her brothers, residents of the State of Pennsylvania, to secure the payment of an annuity of one thousand dollars due by them to her. The mortgagors died before the payment of the indebtedness and before the institution of this suit, and their descendants, C. Montieth Gilpin, of the State of…