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200 HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY. Steer and his daughter Rosalie died in 1821. That George Calvert died in 1838, and the defendant, Charles B. Calvert, is his executor. That on the 11th of November, 1830, complain- ant married Rosalie Eugenia Calvert, one of the children of the above marriage, by whom he has issue, who are made defendants. That on the 13th of January, 1832, complainant and his wife, in furtherance of an antenuptial agreement between them, con- veyed to B. M. Caton and George H. Calvert all the estate to which his wife was entitled at the time of her marriage under the will of her grandfather, Henry Joseph Steer, and certain other estate to which, she would be entitled on the death of her father, by virtue of the marriage settlement above referred to, between her father and mother, with certain other property and all other moneys and other property which she might thereafter inherit or take by devise from her relatives in trust for the sole and separate use of the wife during her life, and after her death to such uses as she might appoint; and that on the 21st of July, 1840, by a decree of this court, the said trustees were removed, and Charles B. Calvert and Robert E. Lee were appointed in their stead. That on the 12th of November, 1836, by deed of that date between George Calvert of the first part, complainant and wife of the second part, and George 11. Calvert and Robert E. Lee of the third part, the said George Calvert conveyed to the par- ties of the third part a tract of land called "Godwood," and forty-two slaves, in trust for complainant's wife, and the same were, with his consent, accepted by his wife in liquidation and satisfaction of certain money and effects in the hands of said George Oalvert due and owing to complainant's wife, and that the possession of said land and slaves had long previous to the execution of said deed been delivered to his wife, and that since that time they have held the possession conformably thereto, and that in that the debt so liquidated and satisfied was due and owing to his wife by her said father on account of certain moneys and effects received by him on her account from the executors of her maternal grandfather, and that the statement of the amount of said debt made by the said George Calvert |
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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
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