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This is an action
of assumpsit
Damages $1000
Sworn to
filed
The Sheriff is required to
hold the defendant to
in the sum of three
hundred & fifty dollars
We command you to take
Bonneville if he may be found within your
County and him safely keep so that you have
his body before the Judge of our
at the next term thereof to be held at the City
of
on the second monday of November next then
and there to answer unto
plea of trespass on the case to the damage
of said plaintiff of one thounsand dollars
And have you then there this writ.
Benjamin B.Bonneville not found
in my county
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attoney complains of
of a plea of trespass on the case for that
whereas the said defendant heretofore to wit
on the
at the County aforesaid was
said
dollars for the work and labor case and
bestowed in and about the business of
the said
and
to wit upon the day and year last aforesaid
at the County aforesaid undertook and then
and there faithfully
to pay him the said sum of One thousand
dollars when he the said
he thereunto afterwards requested. Let the
said
not yet paid the said sum of money or
any part thereof to said
the same has
refused & still doth neglect & refuse to the
damage of said
& therefore he sues & c
Before me archibald Gam
ble clerk of the
personally appeared
in the within declaration I made oath that
Benjamin B. Bonneville the defendant
in said declaration is
in the sum of Two hundred & fifty dollars
of a real
part of the same sum and due to him for
the same cause of action in said declara
tion set forth that said
a resident of this State, and does not, so
far as this affiant knows, own or possess
any real or personal Estate therein that
said
passing the
the Indian County beyond the
particular State, or territory of the
& beyond the
this affiant verily believes unless said Bonne
ville is held to
to secure the payment of said debt together
with costs of suit- he will be in danger
of losing the same.
Upon the foregoing affidavit it is ordered
that a
to
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We the Jury find for the Plaintiff
and