Decr. No. 5 Term 1810

Jacob Dursts vs Walter Hall

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Arkansas com pleas Decr term 1810

Executed 23^rd of Augt 1810

filed 7^th Novr 1810

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To the Honorable Francois Vaugine Esquire Presiding Judge of the court of common pleas in & for the District of Arkansas

Your Petitioner comes here into court before the Honorable Judges of the same & complains of Walter Hall in a plea of trespass on the case and sayeth that he did on or near the twentieth of June last, give an order to the said Walter Hall to receive a certain valuable horse worth two hundred Dollars, of William Winter in the territory of orleans, which horse the said Hall was to deliver to your petitioner within twenty days, the said Walter Hall having received the aforesaid horse refused & does still refuse to deliver the said horse to your petitioner agreeable to his contract, and hath so absconded that the ordinary process of law cannot be forced on him, therefore your petitioner prays that a writ of foreign attatchment may issue against the goods chattels lands & tenements of the said Walter Hall so as to secure the aforesaid sum of two hundred dollars, also the sum of one hundred Dollars damage, together with costs, and your petitioner as in duty bound will ever pray &c

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Jacob X Durst

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Greeting

You are hereby commanded to attatch, seize, take and safely keep the goods, chattels, lands, tenements, and credits, of Walter Hall wherever in your bailiwick the same may be found, to the value of as well the sum of two hundred Dollars, as the sum one hundred Dollars for the costs of charges, which may or shall accrue in the premises, & when you have the same so attatched or any part thereof the same in your custody safely keep, so that you have the same before the Judges of our court of common pleas to be holden in the town of Arkansas, on the first Monday of December next, then there to be condemned according to an act of the Legislature of this territory, entitled an act Directing the method of proceeding against absent and absconding Debtors, to & for the use of Jacob Durst, unless the said Walter Hall by himself or agent shall appear & answer to the said Jacob Durst or his attorney in a plea of trespass on the case to the damage of the said Jacob Durst. The sum of three hundred Dollars, you likewise are commanded to make known to any person or persons in whose hands such property may be found if to them or either of them I deem meet to be and appear on the day & place aforesaid, before the Judges aforesaid, to thus cause why such goods, chattels, lands, tenements & credits, to attatched aforesaid shall not be condemned and execution had and made as in other cases, of recoveries & Judgements, given in courts of records, and that you make known unto the said court how you shall have executed this writ and have you then this writ, given under my hand at my chamber the twenty third day of August one thousand eight hundred & ten, & of the independence of the united states the thirty fifth-

Francois Vaugine

P. J.

I return that I have attatched by going to the usual place of residence of Walter Hall, and declaring the property of the said Hall to be under attatchment, & that I have summoned John Lear as Garnishee in whose hands I found fifty two unfinished hats & have the same in my possession, to satisfy the plaintiffs demand

D Mooney Sheriff

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