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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
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ROBINSON VS. ROBINSON. 181
months, whom I hereby manumit and set free at my death, and
I desire my executor and trustee to provide for their support
out of my funds belonging to my estate until they shall be able
to obtain their freedom under this my codicil and the laws of
this state, and to have their part of the property devised under
the eighth clause of my will. All that clause of my will pro-
viding for the sale of my real estate by my executor and trus-
tee I do hereby revoke and annul, as I do not wish the same
sold, or any part thereof."
There was also a third codicil executed on the 2d June, 1841,
making an additional devise of a house to his boy Daniel, and
also one to Henry, and some wearing apparel to his negro
women.
Such proceedings were then had under this bill that a decree
was passed the 7th of June, 1850, to sell this real estate by
Ezekiel B. Hooper, a trustee, appointed for that purpose in the
usual form of such decrees. The sales were made by this trus-
tee for $7280, and reported 20th February, 1851, and finally
ratified by the court 5th November, 1851. The other proceed-
ings in the cause are sufficiently stated in the following opinion
of the Chancellor.]
THE CHANCELLOR:
The question which arises and has been argued in this case
is presented by certain petitions which have been filed since the
property was sold under the decree of the 7th of June, 1850.
That decree was passed upon the bill filed by certain parties
claiming under the will of William S. Harper, deceased, in
which it was alleged that the interest of all parties concerned
would be promoted by a sale. John D. Farquharson, one of
the petitioners, was a party to the bill, he having been substi-
tuted in the place of William Rea, the trustee named in the
will of the deceased, and by his answer he admitted the allega-
tions of the bill, and consented to the passing of the decree.
After the trustee's report of the sale had been ratified, Jacob
Wilson, by his petition filed on the 30th of July, 1851, stated
that he was one of the purchasers, and claimed, by virtue of a
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