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Abraham Secrets
vs } Declaration
Martin Gist
Filed 12th March 1828
D EMcKinney
1828 Apl Ind. by deft & Ind. set aside plea &c & contd
1828 Octr. term disd.
at plffs costs
Costs taxed in fee Book
Page 83
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Territory of Arks
County of Pulaski
Executed the within writ & declaration on Martin Gist By taking him
in custody whereupon he entered into Bond and security in the sum of three
hundred dollars for his appearance Saline Township March the 21. 1828.
Service $100
Bail Bonde 50
Cir. mls 50 at 5 cents pr mil 250
$400
Stephen Cotten Dp shff
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Territory of Arkansas
Pulaski County
Superior Court
April Term 1828
Abraham Secrets complains of Martin Gist of a plea that he render to
him the said Abraham Secrets one Road Waggon and one pare of work oxen
of grate value to wit of the value of two hundred dollars lawfull money
of the United States which he unjustly detains from him
For that whereas the said Abraham Secrets heretofore to wit on the first
day of February in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and
twenty eight at the County of Pulaski aforesaid was Lawfully possed of
a certain road Waggon and certain pare of work oxen of grate value to
wit of the value of the two hundred dollars lawfull money of the United
States. and being thereof so possest afterwards to wit on the tenth day
of February in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty
eight at the county afd the same Road Waggon and the same work oxen out
of his possession casually lost. and whereas afterward to wit on the same
day and year last aforesaid at the County aforesaid the Same Road Waggon
and the same work oxen to the hands and possession of the said Martin
Gist by finding Came, yet the said Martin Gist well knowing the said road
waggon and the said work oxen to be the property of him the Said Abraham
Secrets and to him of right to belong hath not as yet altho often requested
so to do delivered the Said road waggon or the Said work oxen or either
of them to the Said Abraham Secrets but the Same road waggon and the same
work oxen to him to delever hitherto hath wholy refused and still doth
refuse and unjustly detains the Same from the Said Abraham Secrets at
the County of Pulaski aforesaid to the damage of him the Said Abraham
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Caldwell P atty
Arkansa Territory
Pulaski County
Big Rock Township
This day personally Came before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace
within and for Bigrock Township in the County of Pulaski Abraham Secrets
and made oath according to law that the Property in the foregoing decleration
mentioned in his property and that he is lawfully entitled to the possession
thereof And that he believes the property to be worth the Sum of one hundred
and Sixty dollars. And that Martin Gist the defendent unlawfully detains
the Same 21st February 1828
Chas. Caldwell J P (seal)
The Clerk of the Superior Court will Issue a writ on the foregoing decleration
and Indorse the Same an action of Detinue. Bail required in the Sum of
$320
Caldwell P atty
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April Term 1827 Superior Court
pleas non detinue &c.
Roane for Deft
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