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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1725-1727
Volume 840, Page 174b   View pdf image
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August Court                1726                    174

Loosing his Life and forfeiting his Chattells Lands & Tenements whereby the same John says he is worse
and hath damage to the value of sixty pounds Curr.t mony & thereof he brings this suite &c
                                                                                                 L Gale P Quer pledges &c J Doe R Roe

And the afd Charles Lowe by Joseph Pemberton his attorney Comes and defends the force and Injury
when &c and prays Leave to Imparle hereunto untill next Court and he hath it and the same day is
given to the afd Plft also               Att which said next Court to witt the Sixteenth day of August ann.o
Dom One thousand seven hundred and twenty six Comes again as well the afd John Collins as the afd
Charles Lowe by their attorneys afd and the Said Charles Lowe in his own proper person Com and says
that he Cannot gainsay the action afd of the afd Jno Collins nor Can he Say but that he is guilty of
speaking and publishing the words Laid in the plfts decl.n afd and that the same words were falce
and feigned and that he had wronged the Same Plft by uttering of the same words &c

             Wherefore it is Considered that the afd John Collins Recover against the afd Charles Lowe
943   his damages afd as also the sum of Nine hundred and forty three                     pounds of tobo
for his Costs and Charges by him about his suite in that part Expended to the same John by the Court
hereof his assent Taxed & the afd Deft in Mercy &c     whereupon the afd Plft gratis here in Court
Remitteth the afd Deft of all & Singular the damages that might accrew upon the action afd therefore
ye same Deft of the same Damages be acquitt &c


LG  Donnock Dennis Jun.r
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GD  James Steele
 Somersett fs  James Steell Late of Somrsett County Planter was
attached to answer unto Donnock Dennis Jun.r of a plea of trespass
upon the Case &c                   And whereupon ye same Donnock
                                  by Levin Gale his attorney Complains yt whereas ye afd James Steel ye
Ninth day of May Anno Dom One thousand Seven hundred & twenty Six at Somrsett
County afd within ye Jur of this Court one horse of ye value of ten pounds Currant money
then & there being ye proper Horse of ye afd Donnock Dennis then & there did Kill & Distroy
against the forme of an act of assembly of this province Entituled an act ascertaining ye height
of fences to prevent ye Evill Occasioned by ye Multitude of Horsses & restraining Horse rangers
within this province & to redress ye Evill accrewing to this province by ye Multiplecity of
Useless Horses Mares & Colts that run in ye woods By vertue of which Said act action hath
accrewed to ye afd Donnock to have & require of ye afd James ye full value of ye Horse afd ^of^ which
the said James afterwards to witt ye day & year afd at ye County afd within ye afd Jur by ye Said
Donnock had Notice & then & there was requested to pay unto ye Said Donnock ye full value
afd of ye Horse afd Nevertheless ye afd James ye afd Sum of Ten pounds ye value of ye Horse
afd or any part thereof to ye Same Donnock hath not paid but ye s.d James ye S.d Donnock
in any wise to Satisfie for ye S.d Horse hath altogether refused & Still doth refuse to ye
Damage of ye Said Donnock twenty pounds Curr money & thereof he brings this Suite &c
                                                                                     L Gale P Quer pledges &c Jn.o Doe
                                                                                                                            Richd Roe

       And the afd James Steell by George Dashiell his attorney Cometh and defendeth the force and Injury
when &c and prays Leave to Imparle hereunto untill the next Court and he hath it and the Same
day is given to the afd plft also               Att which said Next Court to witt the sixteenth day of august
                                                                                                                                        anno


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