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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
Volume 200, Volume 4, Page 240   View pdf image (33K)
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240 HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.
the trustees, Dorsey and Hall, on the 8th of April, 1827, filed
their petition in that case asking to have their accounts audited,
and that they might bo relieved from any further execution of
the trust, sind on the 11th of September following, an order
was passed referring the case to the Auditor, to state the neces-
sary accounts.
The Auditor, on the 14th of September, 1827, reported an
account, showing a balance duo the trustees of $280 95, which.
was ratified by the Chancellor on the 8th of October following.
And on the same day, upon the petition of Higgins and wife,
the defendant, Richard W. Higgins, and the complainant,
Joshua Higgins, were, by an order of the Chancellor, appointed
trustees, to complete the trusts of the will of Ann Maccauley, in
the place of the said Dorsey and Hall.
On the 15th of October, 1827, a bill was filed in this court,
by IIiggins and wife, Richard W. Higgins, Joshua Higgins and
Dorsey and Hall, against James Higgins, an infant son of the
said Higgins and wife, in which the proceedings in the other
case are referred to, and praying upon the allegation, that the
negroes had so much increased in number as to be burdensome
to the estate, that a portion of them, of which a list was an-
nexd to the bill, and numbering 23, might be sold, and the
proceeds applied to the payment of the balance due Dorsey and
Hall, and the residue to the use of the other complainants. The
Chancellor passed a decree upon this bill, on the 6th of Decem-
ber following, for a sale of the property, and appointing the
said Richard W. Higgins and Joshua Higgins trustees, to sell,
who on the 27th of February, 1828, executed a joint bond for
the faithful performance of the trust.
Richard W. Higgins, one of the trustees, reported the sale
of one of the negroes, on the 8th of May, 1834, and on the 10th
of April, 1835, he reported the sale of two others, Loth of which
sales were duly ratified: since which period there does not
appear to Lave been any further proceeding in that case.
The bill in the present case, was filed on the 27th of June,
1846, by James Higgins and Joshua Higgins, two of the chil-
dren of Ann Higgins, who died early in that year, (her husband

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