Perrin v. Keithley
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Chancery. This case originated in a creditor’s bill filed in the court of chancery, on the 9th of December, 1826, by Samuel Harrison, a judgment creditor of John Merchant, deceased, against A. B. Harrison, the administrator, and John Perrin and others, the heirs at law of said John Merchant, for a sale of his real estate to pay his debts.
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Appeal from the Court of Chancery. This case originated in a creditor’s bill filed in the court of chancery, on the 9th of December, 1826, by Samuel Harrison, a judgment creditor of John Merchant, deceased, against A. B. Harrison, the administrator, and John Perrin and others, the heirs at law of said John Merchant, for a sale of his real estate to pay his debts. A decree was accordingly passed at September term, 1828, •and A. B. Harrison was appointed trustee to make tiie sale, •who, on the 19th of November following, filed a bond, which was duly approved. The evidence taken in the case…
1Opinion of the CourtMagktjdek, J.
At September term, 1828, a decree was passed by the chancellor, to sell the real estate of John Merchant, deceased, in order to pay his debts; the personal estate proving insufficient. A. B. Harrison was appointed the trustee to make the sale, and on the 29th of November in that year, filed his bond, which it appears was approved by the chancellor. Nothing further was ever done by the trustee in the court of chancery.
On the 22nd October, 1847, three of the children of the deceased filed their petition in the chancery court, in which it is charged, that the trustee made sale of the real estate…
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