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vs
Petition on note for $ 500
Issue summons
Third Judicial Circuit
States that he holds a note on the defendant
as followeth.
"
On demand we promise to pay Joseph
order five hundred
dollars for value received.
On which is the following assignment,
"Pay to the
"
Whereby the plaintiff hath become the
thereof of which the defendant hath had due
notice. Yet the
said
fore the plaintiff prays judgment for his debt and
damages for the
costs.
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vs
Petition & Summons.
a note on the defendant
On demand we promise to pay Joseph Junie Or order five Hundred
dollars
for value received
On which is the following assignment & pay to the bearer
Whereby the plaintiff hath become the proprietor
therof of which the
defendant hath had due notice- yet the said
debt remains unpaid
wherefore the plaintiff
debt and
damages for the
We command you to summon
an appear before the
Judge of our
day of the next term thereof
the be held at the
and for the
then an there to answer unto
the above demand of
as set forth in his Petition of which
the above is a copy and have you
then there this writ
Executed this writ by delivering a true of
service $ 1.00
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Executed this writ by reading it to
on the 3d and to
on the
of
most found in my County
vs
for
You are hereby commanded to summon
G. Smith- Edmund Christy and
that setting aside all manner
of excuse and delay,
person
before the Judge of our
at
the city of
testify and the truth
to say in a certain matter of conatroversy now pending in
our
said Court, wherein
plaintiff and
defendant on the
part of
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1 And the said
his attorney comes and defends the
when
sum of money above
demanded or any part thereof
in manner & form as the said John
R. White,
hath above thereof complained against him
& of
this he puts him
2 And for a further plea in this behalf the said
defendant says, that
the said plaintiff ought not to
have and mantain his aforesaid
him said defenadant because he says, that he
the said defendant in the saith day of
year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three
the said sum of money was demanded of & from the
said
defendat, in the promissory note specified he
did met and truly pay up
the same according
to the
and this he the said defendant is
ready to
wherefore he prays
judgment if he said
plaintiff ought further to have and mantain his
aforesaid action
thereof against him said defend-
ant &c
3 And for a further plea in this behalf the said defendant
says that he
said plaintiff ought not further to and
maintain his aforesaid action
thereof against him said defend-
ant, because he says that the said
supposed promissory
note in the said petiton mentioned is not his note
& of this
he puts him-self upon the County &c
4 And for a further plea in this behalf the
said defendant says that he
said plaintiff ought not
further to have and mantian his aforesaid
action thereof
against him said defendant because he says, that
on
the truth day of
truly pay of
the full amount of said sum of money
thereon specified, to the said
plaintiff in this case, after the same had been
assigned to him, and this he is ready to
wherefore he prays judgment if
plaintiff ought further to have and mantain his
aforesaid action
thereof against him &
5 And for a further plea in this behalf, the said
defendant says that
further to have and mantain his aforesaid
action
thereof against him said defendant, because he
says, that
the said plaitiff, before and at the
time of the Commenement of this
suit, to wit, on the
first day of June in the year of our Lord
hundred and thirty three, at the
county
aforesaid, was and still is indebted to him said
plaintiff
in a large sum of money to wit, the sum of
seven hundred dollars for
divers goods
to the said plaintiff, and for the
said
plaintiff; &
for money paid laid out &
for the said
plaintiff; which said several sums
of money so due and owing from the
said plaintiff
to the said defendant as aforesaid,
sum of money so due in said
promissory note as set
forth in the petiton of him said plaintiff;
and all
interst due thereon; and out of which said sum of
many so
due and owing from the said plaintiff to
the said defendant, he the
said defendant is ready
and
to the
said, plaittiff; the full amount of the said
note, in said petition
mentioned & all interest due therein;
according to form of the
statute in such case made
and provided: And this he is ready to verify
&c
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oath States that he does
in the fall
of the year eighteen hundred and thirty three,
at the time the note
was a member or partner of what
was called the
such company he did not know of the note
in the above
petition
or by their knowledge and consult, -
that he this affiavit
did not
been 20 done, - that he
no one of the
parthenrs or members of the
tain
beign done- and this
affiant does
note is
a
knowledge of said company- and this
does also
from
where said
note purports to
validate the Same or
the same is not
Milton Subbtt
ats
Pleas.
1.
2- Payment before assigment
3-
4- payment of
5- set- aff-
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Jno R White
vs
case being duly
Sworn upon his oath states, that he is not
ready for trial in the above
cause on account of this damage of
Material witness, Viz.
Louis
for this defendant, that
at this time absent
from this state, being either in and about to
that the
said witnesses have
that
said witness are not absent by this
or
of
said witness to be material & that he can not safely go
to trial
without the evidence of said witness an so that he
expects to be able
to procure the attendance of said witnesses
by the next term of this
the application which this
affiant makes for a
this case not made for the purpose
of
the
affidavit-
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Executed this writ by reading it to
&
on the 7th November &
to
9th Nov 1835 in the
county of
vs
for
You are hereby commanded to summon
that setting
aside all manner of excuse and delay, they be and appear in proper person
before the
Judge of our
the
now pending in our said Court, wherein
and
the
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Received & defd
Fee bill 207
vs
Received the note described in the
within petition by order of Court
as to the first plea the said
plaintiffs say they do the
as to the second
plaintiffs say that said defendant did not pay up the
any part thereof
in manner & form as in said
and as to the third plea to said
tiffs says that he doth the like &c
and as to the fourth plea of the defendant the
plaintiffs says that the
defendant did not pay
to
mentioned in any part thereof
in manner
as is in said plea
alleged this he prays may be
inquired of by the county &c
and as to the fifith plea of the defendant the
plaintiff says that he
defendant the said sum of money or any
part
thereof in said plea mentioned in manner &
f
may be inquired of by the country &c