Submitted by Sue Burns Moore sbmoore@swbell.net
Jefferson County Mississippi - Court Records, 1802-1813; Minutes, 1822-1835 Family History Library Film # 893057, Salt Lake City, Utah
Be it remembered that at a County Court held in and for the
County of Jefferson at the Court house in the Town of Huntston on
the Fourteenth day of July in the Year of our Lord Eighteen hundred
and two before Cato West and other his associate Esquires Justices
of the County Court aforesaid. By virtue of a Law entitled “An act
to provide for the more convenient organization of the Courts of
this Territory” was transferred into the said Court from the Court
of Common Pleas of the late County of Pickering, an action of
Trespass on the case wherein John Hinds Esq. is plaintiff and
William Calhoon defendant, The said on a plea of a non assumpsit's
(?). Came the said John Hinds Esq.. by James Campbell Esq. his
attorney, and also the said William Calhoon by Abner L. Duncan Esq.
his attorney and thereupon a Jury was called and impaneled, to wit,
Andrew Watkins
John A. Davidson
James Spain
Edmd.
Johnson
John Scott
John Gaskins
Roland Brown
David
Darden
Michael Fake
Everard Green
Charles McKiernan
Jesse Lum
who being impaneled and sworn, the truth to speak
upon the issue Joined upon their oath to say that the said William
Calhoun did assume upon himself in manner and form as the plaintiff
against him hath complained and they do assess the plaintiff
damages, by occasion of the nonperformance of that assumption to
Twenty one Dollars and twenty five cents beside his Costs. Therefore
it is considered by the Court that said John Hinds recover against
the said William Calhoon his damages aforesaid by the Jury in their
verdict in form aforesaid assessed and likewise Twenty two Dollars
and ninety Seven cents his costs and charges by him about his suit
in this behalf expended, and the said defendant in Mercy go.