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Affidavit, 23 May 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge]
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, Affidavit, before , [], Hancock Co., IL, 23 May 1844, C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1844); handwriting of ; certified by , 23 May 1844; docket by , [, Hancock Co., IL, 23 May 1844]; notation by , 23 May 1844; notation by James M. Campbell, [, McDonough Co., IL], 12 Aug. 1844; two pages; McDonough County Circuit Court Files, Illinois Regional Archives Depository vault, Archives and Special Collections, Leslie F. Malpass Library, Western Illinois University, Macomb.
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| State of Illinois) | SS. [scilicet] |
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Circuit Court
May Term— 1844
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| Joseph Smith & ) |
plaintiff in the above case having been first duly sworn, doth depose and say on oath that he is plaintiff in the above cause and that he fears he will not receive a fair trial of said case in Circuit Court, in which the said case is now pending for the reasons that the inhabitants of said are prejudicd against the , that he cannot expect a fair trial of said case in the said Circuit Court of , he therefore prays of this Honorable Court, a change of venue in said case, as is by law in such cases made and provided.
Subscribed and Sworn to before me the clk of the Circuit Court of Ill this 23d day of May AD 1844.
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Signature of Jacob B. Backenstos.