Bachman & Skinner and on behalf of JS, Plea, , IL, 20 May 1844, F. M. Higbee v. JS–B (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1844); handwriting of ; docket by , [, IL, 20 May 1844]; docket by unidentified scribe, [ca. 20 May 1844]; notation by , [, Hancock Co., IL], 21 May 1844; notation by James M. Campbell, [, McDonough Co., IL], 12 Aug. 1844; three pages; McDonough County Circuit Court Files, Illinois Regional Archives Depository vault, Archives and Special Collections, Leslie F. Malpass Library, Western Illinois University, Macomb. Includes seal.
Witness Clerk of our said Circuit Court at this First day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four
Clerk
By Depy”
and which said action is for the same <Causes> of action in the said declaration in this suit above mentioned as by the record and proceedings thereof, in the said Court recurring appears, and the defendant further says that the parties in this and the said former suit are the same parties and no other and different; and that the said former suit is still depending in the said Court; and this he is ready to verify &c wherefore he prays Judgment of the said writ and declaration in this suit and that the same may be quashed &c
By Bachman & Skinner & his attys
State of Illinois)
Ss [scilicet]
)
I Joseph Smith, defendant in the said case, do swear that the matters and things stated in the above plea are true in substance and in fact
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th day of May AD 1844