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March Court
1725
126 And Whereupon y.e s.d John p.r Geo Dashiell his attorney Complains that the same John athen at Coventry parish within the Jur of this Court was Indebted unto him in the Sum of two hundred & thirty two pounds of tob.o as p.r acc.t hereto anext may appear & being so thereof Indebted on y.e Eighteenth day of March one thousand seven hundred & Nineteen twenty at the parish and Cort afd did upon himselfe assume & promise that the afd sum of two hundred & thirty two pounds of tob.o he would well & truly Content & pay when he Should be thereto required Never the Less the said John athen his promis & assumption afd in form afd made Little regarding altho often thereto requested to y.e s.d John he hath not paid but the same to pay hath denies & Still doth denie to the Damage of the said John of four hundred sixty four pounds of tobacco and of he brings Suite &c Geo: Dashiell P Quer pledges Jn.o Doe Rich.d Roe
A Copy of the Cause of Action was made and Sent to be Left at the Last place of abode of the deft afd Att which said third tuesday of March to witt the fifteenth day of the Same month being the day of the Return of the Said Writt Cometh afd John Dennis by his attorney afd and the Sherr of Somrsett County to whom the foregoeing writt was directed Likewise Cometh and maketh return thereof to the Court here Endorsed in these words following viz.t Non Est Inventus short note Left at the Last Place of abode of the deft p Francis Allen Sherr Whereupon the said John Dennis by his attorney afd prayed that for as much as he has Complyed with the Law as alledge in order to an attachm.t he may have Judgm.t against the afd Jonathan Woodbury for his damages afd by way of attachm.t according to act of assembly &c Whereupon for that it seem's to the Court here that the said John Dennis hath Complyed with the Laws as alledged Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here the fifteenth day of march ann.o Dom One thousand seven hundred and twenty five afd that the afd Jno Dennis Recover against the afd Jon.a Woodbury as well the Sum of two hundred and thirty two pounds of tob 206 his damages by Occasion of the premises afd as all Costs and Charges by the said Plft Laid Out and Expended about his Suite by way of attachmt against the goods Chattells and Creditts of ye said Jona Woodbury according to act of Assembly in Such Case made and provided &.c
have their Body's before the Justices of our ^his Lordships^ County Court of Somersett the third tuesday of March then Next at Dividing Creek to answer unto Alexander Hall of a plea of trespass upon the Case &c and that thereof he Should not fail &c Att which Said Next Court to witt the fifteenth day of march anno Dom one (thousand) |
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