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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
Volume 200, Volume 4, Page 458   View pdf image (33K)
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458 HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.
enjoin it upon him, to give the whole, real and personal, to bis
son, Isaac Spencer, and to his eldest male heir forever, with a
request from me that he will act a kind brotherly part by his
brothers and sisters, as their situation and need may require.
"It is my further wish that no part of my property be sold
at public sale, as I believe all my debts may be paid from the
proceeds of my estate in the year 1823, if not before, and none
of my negroes to be sold out of the state, except for gross mis-
conduct. Any useless or surplus property can be disposed of
at private sale."
This bill was filed by George Spencer, one of the sons of the
testator's brother, Jervis, and William Knight, the son of his
niece, Charlotte Ringgold, who, together with William Spencer,
the other son of the said Jervis Spencer, were by the will of
the testator, William Spencer, to be put upon a footing of equali-
ty with the children of Isaac Spencer, the devisee.
It alleged that the said Isaac, who was appointed sole execu-
tor of the will of William, the testator, entered upon and took
possession of his estate, real and personal, and received the
rents and profits thereof, but that he caused no valuation of the
estate to be made, as directed by the said will; that he sold a
portion of the real estate much below its actual value, and has
mismanaged and wasted the personal estate to a large amount.
That he, the said Isaac Spencer, died on or about the 1st
day of November, 1832, leaving a will duly executed, devising
and bequeathing his whole estate, including that which he ac-
quired from the said William Spencer, to his children and heirs
at law, making William A. Spencer and John Spencer, two of
them and two of the defendants, his executors, to whom also
letters of administration, de bonis non, upon the estate of the
said William Spencer have been granted.
The complainants allege that they have arrived at age, but
that they have received no benefit from the devise of William
Spencer in their favor, either from the said Isaac Spencer, or
from his executors, devisees or heirs at law, and they pray an
account and payment and for general relief.
The answer of the defendants admits the death of William

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