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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
Volume 200, Volume 3, Page 122   View pdf image (33K)
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122 HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.
the defendants, as executors of said George Crane, to pay over
and deliver to the complainant, as administrator of the said
Mary, the said bonds, to be by him recovered and collected for
the benefit of her representatives and distributees, and for
general relief.
The answer of the executors, filed on the 28th of March,
1850, admits the intermarriage and death of the husband and
wife, their appointment as executors of the husband, and the
grant of letters testamentary to them, as well as letters of
administration on the estate of the wife, as charged in the
bill, and then states that they found among the papers of their
testator certain bonds for a large sum of money, copies of which
are filed with the bill; said bonds are for the amounts specified
in said copies, and are drawn in favor of Mary Gough and her
assigns, and so far as respondents know have not been paid,
except insomuch as shown by the credits thereon, nor have
judgments been obtained upon them. But these respondents
aver and allege, that prior to the intermarriage between the
said George Crane and the said Mary Gough, the said bonds
were, in consideration of the marriage which was about to be
solemnized between them, and which did take place on the 3d
of September, 1846, given by the said -Mary Gough to the
said George Crane, and that in accordance to said gift and
agreement, the said bonds were delivered to the said George
Crane, and remained in his possession up to the time of his
death, which happened in August, 1849.
And these respondents also aver that the said bonds, in
consideration of the approaching marriage between the said
George Crane and the said Mary Gough, and which said mar-
riage did take place at the time aforesaid, were by the agree-
ment of the said Mary Gough with the said George Crane to
become the property of the said George Crane at the time of
his intermarriage with her, and that in consequence of said
agreement and the said marriage, the said bonds came into the
possession and did become the property of the said George
Crane, and that these respondents, as his executors, are now
entitled to have and receive the proceeds of them as a part of

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