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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
Volume 200, Volume 3, Page 515   View pdf image (33K)
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GLENN VS. WOOTTEN. 515
for more than three weeks, she postponed the sale thereof, in
consequence of the inclemency of the weather, until the 17th
of December, 1850, when the same was set up at public sale,
on the premises, and the whole tract, containing 10851/2 acres,
was sold to Mrs. Mary Hall, for $13 621/2 per acre, being in
all $14,489 95, she being the highest bidder therefor.
To this sale, Albert A. Berry, a creditor to a large amount
of said William T. Wootten, deceased, filed objections, because
1st. The whole tract was put up for sale, and sold together,
whereas it was capable of advantageous division, and if so
divided would have sold for much more.
2d. Sufficient and reasonable notice was not given of the
time, place, manner, and terms of sale, by advertisement in
papers, or otherwise.
3d. Many persons desirous of purchasing parcels thereof,
were kept from the sale by a report that the whole was to be
sold in a lump.
4th. The widow's dower should have been first assigned, so
that purchasers might know in what parcel she would hold the
same.
5th. The sale made was done collusively, and with the view
of being purchased at a depreciated value, for the benefit of
the family of the deceased, and the injury of exceptant and his
other creditors.
6th. The land only sold for $13 62|- per acre, being not
one-third of its fair value, when if the same had been offered
in parcels, it would readily have brought from $30 to $40 per
acre.
Depositions were taken in support and in opposition to these
exceptions, the purport of which sufficiently appears in the
opinion of the Chancellor.]
THE CHANCELLOR :
This case is submitted upon exceptions to the sale reported
by the trustee, Mrs. Margaret Wootten, and the depositions
and arguments, in writing, of the solicitors of the parties, have
been read and carefully considered by the Court.

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