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VIRGINIA-In the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of the city of Alexandria, on the 18th day of Juna, 1878.
The Washington City Savings Bank, use of William F. Mattinglog, Receiver, David Walker Lewis, J. Davis and John W. Magill, trading as bankers under the name and style of Lewis Johnson & Co; James C. Hall and Otis Bigelow, for themselves and others, holders of notes secured by deed of trust made by Wm H Davis, who may choose to come in as plaintitt's herei, plaintiffs, against William H. Davis, Lucratis J Davis, his wife, John C. Wesms, administrator with the will annexed of the estate of Joseph Dickinson Thorpe, Joseph Thornton and Ann R. Thornton, his wife, Charles E. Rittenhouse and Rittenhouse, his wife, William H. Marbury and M. Dulany Ball, trustees, S. Ferguson Beach, Francis L. Smith, jr., and W. Arthur Taylor, defendants. In chane-ry.
Memo The object of the above suit is to establish a certain deed of trust made by defendant William H. Davis and wife to William H. Dulang, trustee, upon a certain tract of land in Fairfax county, Virginia, consisting of about 7500 acres, known as the Thornton tract, fully described in ssid deed of trust, which was executed about August 17, 1869, and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the county of Fairfax, about Sept. 14, 1869, and made to secure the payment of certain notes described in said deed of trust, amounting to $150 000, made by said Davis to the order of said Rittenhouse, and endorsed by him and said Joseph Thornton, a large portion of which are owned by the plaintifi's, as the firstilien upon the said tract of land to procure the said property to be sold for the purpose of enforcing payment of the said notes held by the plaintiff, to have adjudged and decreed certain alleged assignments of liens by Joseph Thornton to Joseph Dickinson Thorpe, and claimed by said Administrator of his estate to be the first lien upon ssid property to be invalid and void as to these plaintiffs, and to obtain personal judgments against said maker and endorsers of said notes for the amount thereof, with interest, and for the relief prayed for in the bill tiled.
The dofendants, Charles E. Rittenhouse and Rittenhouse, his wife, William H. Davis and Lucretia J. Davis, his wife, and Joseph Thornton, not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing by affidavit that they are not residents of this State, it is ordered that the said defendants appear here within one month after due publication of this order, and do what is necessary to protect their interests in this suit; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Alexandria Gazette, a newspaper published in the city of Alexandria, once a week for four successive weeks, and posted at the front door of the Court House of this city. A copy, test:
MORTON MARYE, Clerk.
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