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354 HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. said mortgage and trust, the said sum of money was attempted to be fraudulently appropriated to the use of the said Charlotte, and that the said Rebecca Harriott was privy and consenting thereto; that the time limited for the payment of the money having expired, the said Charlotte, since the decease of her hus- band, had filed a bill in this court, for the sale of the mortgaged property, as will appear by the bill, and the proceedings therein. That since January last, the complainant had discovered that there was standing, in the name of the said Charlotte, three several parcels of the stock debt of the city of Baltimore, the amounts and dates of the certificates of which are given in the bill; which investments, the bill alleges, were made in the life time of her husband, and without his consent; winch? after notice, that said stocks were claimed by the complainant, as administrator, were disposed of by the said Charlotte, and the proceeds converted to her use. That the moneys with which these stocks were purchased, were also fraudulently obtained from her husband, by the said Charlotte, she having no means, by which she could have acquired money in any other way, and that all these sums, amounting in the whole to $1516, as well as any other money the said Charlotte may have appropriated to her own use, the complainant, as the administrator of her hus- band, is entitled to. The prayer of the bill, is, that Waters may be compelled to account with, and pay, the complainant the amount of the mort- gage debt. That the defendant, Charlotte, may be compelled to state from whom, and in what manner, she obtained the said several sums of money, and that she may be required to ac- count with, and pay to, the complainant the proceeds of the stocks so sold, and appropriated to her own use, and that she be compelled to discover and account for any other funds other late husband, which she may, in like manner, have appropria- ted to her own use, and that said Rebecca Marriott, may, also, answer and discover, &c. The bill, also, prayed for an injunction to stay proceedings upon the mortgage, and for general relief. The defendants to this bill, were Waters and his wife, (a daughter of Abel Spen- |
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