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Silas L. Payne v Thos. Sullivan, 15 Jul 1802

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 Fifteenth 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 Silas L. Payne is the plaintiff and Thomas Sullivan is the defendant, and the said cause is a writ of inquiry by Judgment by Default legally – in the aforesaid Court of Common Pleas. Came the said Silas L. Payne by Abner L. Duncan Esq. his attorney the said Thomas Sullivan still making default was solemnly called, but came not, whereupon behalf of the said Silas L. Payne, a Jury was impaneled to wit-

John A. Davidson
John Scott
Andrew Watkins
Everd. Green
Thomas Hinds
Edmd. Johnson
Washington Burch
Jas. ------
John Gaskins
Michl. Faik (Fake?)
John Sercy
Mordecai ---ton

who being sworn diligently to inquire of the truth in this Suit between Silas L. Payne and Thomas Sullivan upon their oath do say that the said Silas L. Payne sustained damage by the occasion of the nonperformance in the undertaking and promise in the amount of Four Dollars and Seventy five cents besides his costs. Therefore it is considered by the Court that the said Silas L. Payne do recover against the said Thomas Sullivan his damages aforesaid by the jury in their verdict in form aforesaid assessed besides Twenty three Dollars and ----- Cents. His costs by about his Suit in this behalf expended, and the defendant in Mercy go.



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