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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
Volume 200, Volume 3, Page 463   View pdf image (33K)
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NOTLEY YOUNG'S ESTATE. , 463
aggrieved, and they therefore pray that the case may be
remanded to the Auditor, to restate his account, so as io
bring the said advancement into hotchpot with the residue of
said estate now to be distributed, and that Smith and wife may
be chargeable with said advancement, and for general relief.
The other alleges that the intestate, by deed of gift dated
4th of March, 1846, conveyed to his daughter Martha certain
real estate lying in the District of Columbia, now of the value
of $4,000, that by another deed of gift he also conveyed
certain slaves to the said Martha of the value of $3,000; that
the value of this real and personal estate exceeds a child's por-
tion of the intestate's estate, and prays that it may be brought
into hotchpot in the division of the fund now in Court. This
petition also alleges the death of the said Martha, leaving a
will, and makes her devisees and legatees parties to the pro-
ceedings. The answers and the facts proven in the case are
sufficiently stated in the following opinion of the Chancellor,
delivered at the hearing of these petitions on the 11th of .No-
vember, 1851.]
THE CHANCELLOR :
This case was submitted during the sittings of the term,
upon the petitions of Clement Young and Julia F. Young,
infant defendants, by their guardian, William A. Brady, and
now, at the close of the sittings, is laid before the Court in
conformity with the rule.
The petitions, which were filed on the 14th of February and
the 25th of March, 1851, allege that Notley Young, the in-
testate, and the father of the petitioners, in his lifetime con-
veyed gratuitously, as an advancement to his daughters, Mar-
tha Young and Heloise Smith, certain parcels of his real and
personal estate, which the petitioners insist should be treated
as a part of the shares to Which the said Martha and Heloise
would be entitled, as two of his heirs-at-law and personal repre-
sentatives.
The personal estate of the said intestate proving inadequate
to pay his debts, upon a bill filed by his creditors, the realty

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