Hopkins v. Roberts
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, in Equity. This appeal was taken from an order of the Court (Magruder, J.,) helow, finally ratifying and confirming a sale to John P. Hopkins, reported hy the trustees, Eoberts and Wootton, and requiring the said Hopkins to pay or bring into Court the sum of $1308.75, being the amount of the purchase money, after crediting the sum of $30, admitted hy the trustees to have been paid to the trustee Wootton, or show cause…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, in Equity. This appeal was taken from an order of the Court (Magruder, J.,) helow, finally ratifying and confirming a sale to John P. Hopkins, reported hy the trustees, Eoberts and Wootton, and requiring the said Hopkins to pay or bring into Court the sum of $1308.75, being the amount of the purchase money, after crediting the sum of $30, admitted hy the trustees to have been paid to the trustee Wootton, or show cause to the contrary, &c. The case is stated in the opinion of this Court. The cause was argued before Bartol, C. J., Bowie,…
1Opinion of the CourtBowie, J.
The question presented hy this appeal is, whether a sale reported hy the appellees, as trustees, to the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, in the matter of the real estate of Anne Elizabeth Wootton, deceased, should he ratified ? The deceased, hy her last will and testament, dated the twentieth of November, 1866, duly executed to pass real estate and admitted to probate hy the Orphans’ Court of said county, devised and directed, that when certain mortgage debts therein mentioned should become due, if they should become due during the life of her mother, Daniel Clarke, as trustee, and…
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