Gibbs v. Clagett
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from a decree of the Court of Chancery, dismissing the hill of the complainant, (now appellant.) The ease is fully stated in the opinion delivered by this Court. Blaüíd, Chancellor, (March Term, 1827.) The late Thomas Gibbs died in the year 1811, seized in fee of a parcel of land, ■which descended to these parties, or his children and heirs; to whom, by his testament, he gave the personal property of which he died possessed.
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Appeal from a decree of the Court of Chancery, dismissing the hill of the complainant, (now appellant.) The ease is fully stated in the opinion delivered by this Court. Blaüíd, Chancellor, (March Term, 1827.) The late Thomas Gibbs died in the year 1811, seized in fee of a parcel of land, ■which descended to these parties, or his children and heirs; to whom, by his testament, he gave the personal property of which he died possessed. And he left a widow, the mother of these parties. Some time after the death of the father, it was agreed among his widow and children, that the widow should reside…
1Opinion of the Court
.Dorsey, J.
delivered the opinion of the court.
The bill states that Thomas Gibbs, late of Anne Arundel, died seized of a tract of land called Gibbs’ Inheritance, which the complainant and his sisters, the defendants, inherited in co-parcenary. That it was appraised under the act of descents, in virtue of proceedings in Anne Arundel County Court, and beiug adjudged incapable of division, the *24complainant elected to take the same at the appraisement, and accordingly gave hond to the State of Maryland, in the penal sum of $3000 ; conditioned for the payment of $612 75, to each of the other heirs…
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