Henry Stephens and Dixon & Cooley on behalf of , Declaration, , IL, [ca. 27 Mar. 1844], Sympson v. JS (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1844); unidentified handwriting; docket by unidentified scribe, [, IL, ca. 27 Mar. 1844]; notation by , [, Hancock Co., IL], 28 Mar. 1844; notation by James M. Campbell, [, McDonough Co., IL], 12 Aug. 1844; eight pages; McDonough County Circuit Court Files, Illinois Regional Archives Depository vault, Archives and Special Collections, Leslie F. Malpass Library, Western Illinois University, Macomb.
then and there, to wit. on the same day and year last aforesaid, at the County of aforesaid, falsely and maliciously caused and procured the said to be arrested by his body, and to be imprisoned, and to be kept and detained in prison for a long space of time, to wit, for the space of seven hours then next following, and at the expiration of which said time he the said was duly discharged and fully acquitted of the said last-mentioned offence, to wit, at the County of aforesaid— By means of which said several premises; he the said hath been and is greatly injured in his said credit and reputation, and brought into public scandal, infamy, and disgrace with and amongst all his neighbors and other good and worthy citizens of this , and divers of those neighbors and citizens to whom his innocence in the premises was unknown, have on occasion of the premises suspected and believed, and still do suspect and believe that the said hath been and is guilty of Felony; and also the said hath by means of the premises suffered great anxiety and pains of body and mind, and hath laid out and expended, divers large sums of money, in the whole amounting to a large sum of money to wit, the sum of Five Hundred Dollars in and about the procuring his discharge from the said imprisonment, and defending of himself in the premises, and the manifestation of his innocence in that behalf, and hath been greatly hindered and prevented by reason of the premises from following and transacting his lawful and necessary affairs and business for a long time, to wit, for the space of four months, and also, by reason and means of the said premises, the said hath been [p. [4]]