In the fall of November 1810, Perly Wallis filed an action of debt in the District of Arkansas Justice of the Peace Court. Andre Fagot, a prominent French native of Arkansas Post, served as the Justice of the Peace, a lower court than the Court of Common Pleas. The defendant, Pierre Lefevre, did not appear in response to the summons, and so Fagot granted Wallis a default judgment for fifty dollars and the “costs of the suit”—$1.26, a far cry from the cost of a suit today. The judgment was executed by the sheriff in September 1812, but no property of Lefevre was found. Andre Fagot filed this transcript with the District Court “to” the November 1812 Term, but unfortunately the court did not meet because not one of the three judges appeared. This particular suit does not appear in the record book of the Court of Common Pleas.

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