Jones v. Jones
High Court of Chancery of Maryland
This was a creditors' bill, filed on the 14th of February 1827, by Hiram Jones and Elizabeth Jones, against Martha Jinn Jones and Emetine Jones, infant heirs of the late Jesse Jones, Richard Spencer jun’r, and Edward Brown.
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This was a creditors' bill, filed on the 14th of February 1827, by Hiram Jones and Elizabeth Jones, against Martha Jinn Jones and Emetine Jones, infant heirs of the late Jesse Jones, Richard Spencer jun’r, and Edward Brown. The bill states, that the defendant^emcer had, on the 1st of October 1824, recovered two judgments against Jesse Jones, in his lifetime, the one for $230 with interest from the 23d of January 1823 and costs; and the other for $167 with interest from the 27th of May 1824 and costs; which two judgments Spencer had assigned to this .plaintiff Hiram Jones; that Jesse Jones…
1Opinion of the Court
Bland, Chancellor.
This case standing ready for hearing without opposition from the defendants, the solicitor of the plaintiffs was fully heard, and the proceedings read and considered.
The peculiar nature of this case seems to require a more than usually attentive consideration. Putting aside so much of it as relates to the small parcel of land of which the intestate died seized, about which there can be no difficulty; this is the case of a creditors’ bill, in which it appears, that the real estate of the debtor had been taken in execution, during his lifetime, and sold after Ms death, leaving…
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