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Documentation consists only of a notice to the County Sheriff.

Selling whiskey.

Points of dispute include property. Additional Plaintiffs: W. J. Carter and George Barnes. 2 folders.

Additional Plaintiffs: Alzenia Thompson, J. S. Thompson, and Judia Thompson.

Plaintiff is seeking to prevent dispossession from her apartment. Exhibits include trust deed, bank book, and canceled check.

Origin of Debt: writing obligatory.

Exhibits: correspondence, certificate, enrollment agreement.

Anna Sparks is sued Kings Incorporated for damages for personal injuries she received when she fell down their stairway. She sues for $2,500.00 in damages.

In 1857, the plaintiff and defendant purchased jointly, a tract of land from Michael Bashor for $1,340. The plaintiff paid $400 in cash at the time of purchase and the two parties executed joint notes to Bashor and parties Bashor owed money for the rest. The defendant claimed he paid $187 more than the plaintiff, who was bad with numbers and accepted the claim, signing several notes to equalize their ownership. Later, the plaintiff discovered he was misled and overpaid prompting this suit.

Cause of action was listed as "Bill of Equity. "Complainants were seeking justice for a property they claim was wrongly levied.

Brief for plaintiff only. Simpson sued sureties of Mark Bacon formerly sheriff of Washington County to recover of said sureties for failure of said Bacon to pay over monies collected by him to which Simpson was entitled. Simpson gave execution against A.D. Taylor to Bacon for collecting a note, which Bacon failed to do.

Hartman sued Carson for trespass to his damage $25,000. During the late war, Hartman was loyal to the Union and Carson was a Confederate. Carson refused to give him a certificate of exemption from the rebel army and caused Hartman to be arrested and imprisoned for 5-6 months. Hartman was also compelled to stay from his home for 2 years after his escape from the rebel army and prison. Court ruled in favor of plaintiff for $550.

Wheeler and Wilson Man. Co. was seeking to have a sewing machine returned to the company.

Additional plaintiffs and defendants listed in file. Issue of two contracts or policies of insurance on the life of R. Bennick Hyder (dec'd) by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. Includes consolidated cases of defendants trying to sell certain property owned by the deceased and bequeathed in the will.

See ET 1500 for possible related case. S. E. Guinn Manufacturing Company has file bankruptcy. After selling its property in holding for $5000, and paying off its expenses $4100, there is very little money left to settle the investments of its trustees. Additionally, the case goes into very complicated details concerning bonds held with other companies, and other interests to which the company is indebted.

Consolidated cases. Additional plaintiffs and defendants are unclear. Complicated estate dispute involving the property and debt left by A. G. Graham after his death. Plaintiff Hoss is listed as a creditor of Graham's estate. In controversy are several issues, including the sale of tobacco by the Graham estate. Case file notes the events of the Civil War delayed the case.

The plaintiff was given land in a will by his father Richard McLinn. The plaintiff wishes for the defendant to be enjoined from taking possession of the land for debts owed to him.

Incomplete case file; exhibits and decree. Black purchased land that was erroneously sold to him.

Order only.

Case file references the "Law Court" of Washington County. Case file is incomplete; opinion only.

Points of dispute include property. Additional Defendant: Gracie Miller.