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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
Volume 200, Volume 4, Page 476   View pdf image (33K)
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476 HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.
[The bill in this case was filed by the complainants, John T.
Stoddert and Robert Bowie, Jr., and Elizabeth, his wife, against
the personal representatives, widow and devisees of Robert
Bowie, deceased, for the specific performance of an alleged
agreement made between the said Robert Bowie, deceased, and
the complainant, John T. Stoddert, in contemplation of the mar-
riage of their children, the other complainants. The allegations
of the bill and answer, and the proof in the case are sufficiently
stated in the following opinion of the Hon. Nicholas Brewer,
Associate Judge of the third Judicial District, to whom the
cause was certified by the Chancellor, who was interested in the
result of the suit.]
This case has been submitted to me by certificate of his honor,
the Chancellor, and has been fully argued on both sides.
The bill in substance alleges, that the complainant, Robert
W. Bowie, Jr., and Elizabeth Bowie, then Elizabeth Stoddert,
being engaged to be married, with consent of their parents,
John T. Stoddert and Robert W. Bowie, and having no means
for their support and maintenance when married, in contem-
plation of the said marriage, it was thereupon mutually agreed
by and between their parents, and also by and between their
said parents and themselves, and as a provision therefor, that
the said John T. Stoddert should give to his said daughter a farm,
not to exceed the value of $12,000, and that the said Robert
W. Bowie should give to his said son, as soon as he was mar-
ried, $8000 or $10,000, in personal property, suitable for the
occupation and cultivation of a farm, and in addition thereto, if
the married couple should be settled near him, should furnish
them with groceries and other necessary supplies for a year or
more, until a crop was made to obviate the necessity of their
going in debt. That on the 28th day of May, 1846, upon the
faith of said agreement, and relying thereon, the said parties
were married.
The bill further states, that the said John T. Stoddert, in
fulfilment of his part of the said agreement, purchased the Not-
tingham farm, in Prince Georges county, at the cost (including

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