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Docket Entry, circa 24 May 1842, Copy [State of Illinois v. C. L. Higbee]

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Introduction to State of Illinois v. C. L. Higbee Complaint, 24 May 1842 [State of Illinois v. C. L. Higbee] Warrant, 24 May 1842 [State of Illinois v. C. L. Higbee] Subpoena, 24 May 1842 [State of Illinois v. C. L. Higbee] Recognizance, 24 May 1842 [State of Illinois v. C. L. Higbee] Docket Entry, circa 24 May 1842 [State of Illinois v. C. L. Higbee] Docket Entry, circa 24 May 1842, Copy [State of Illinois v. C. L. Higbee] Subpoena, 14 September 1842 [State of Illinois v. C. L. Higbee] Subpoena, 19 September 1842 [State of Illinois v. C. L. Higbee] Case File Wrapper, circa October 1842 [State of Illinois v. C. L. Higbee]

Docket Entry, circa 24 May 1842, Copy [State of Illinois v. C. L. Higbee]

Source Note

Docket Entry, [, Hancock Co., IL], ca. 24 May 1842, State of IL v. C. L. Higbee (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1842). Copied 1 Sept. 1842; handwriting of ; certified by , 1 Sept. 1842; docket and notation by , [, Hancock Co., IL], 14 Sept. 1842; two pages; Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court Legal Documents, 1839–1860, BYU. Includes seal.
Upon appeal, justice of the peace created a certified transcript of his docket entry, which was filed with the , Illinois, circuit court in 1842. This document remained in the custody of the circuit court until at least 1968, when Richard and Pamela Price made a photocopy of it. A portion of the case documents and several other Hancock county records had been acquired by Pearl Gordon Vestal, a local historian from Hamilton, Illinois, by 1958. After her death, her family sold them to manuscript collector David C. Martin in 1973. In 1975, Martin sold the court records to the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. Later that year, library staff merged the Martin acquisition with two distinct document accretions from manuscript collectors Steven Barnett and Peter Crawley.

Footnotes

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    Price and Price, Joseph Smith Fought Polygamy, 1:144–145, 158–159; David C. Martin, Nauvoo, IL, to Chad Flake, Provo, UT, 8 Aug. 1973, in Case File for Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court Legal Documents, 1839–1860, BYU.

    Price, Richard, and Pamela Price. Joseph Smith Fought Polygamy: Volume 1. Independence, MO: Price Pub. Co., 2000.

    Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court Legal Documents, 1839–1860. Twentieth-Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts. BYU.

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    Approximately eleven different collections were subsequently added to the collection in 1980. (Bibliographic entry for Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court Legal Documents, 1839–1860, BYU; Willard C. Smith, “Hancock County, Illinois Legal Documents,” 1980, in Case File for Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court Legal Documents, 1839–1860, BYU.)

    Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court Legal Documents, 1839–1860. Twentieth-Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts. BYU.

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Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. Docket Entry, circa 24 May 1842 [ State of Illinois v. C. L. Higbee ]
Docket Entry, circa 24 May 1842, Copy [ State of Illinois v. C. L. Higbee ]

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State of ) Slander and Defamation of Character.
vs.)
)
Justice fees $1.62½)
const. " )
3 <​4​> Witnesses $2.00)
May 24, 1842. Upon the affidavit of Joseph Smith, a Warrant issued against for slander and defamation committed against the said Joseph Smith and his wife, at sundry times in the City of , and county of
May 24, 1842. Warrant executed by Lewis Robison constable, by bringing the forward. At request of complainant Subpoena issued for , and Sarah Miller, and was served by Constable Robinson. And the witnesses attended.
On hearing, the is required to give bail in the sum of Two Hundred Dollars, for his appearance at the next term of the Circuit Court for said , to answer said complaint.
Whereupon, the , and entered into bond accordingly.
State of Illinois) ss. [scilicet]
County of )
I, , Justice of the peace, do certify that the foregoing is a true copy from my Docket, of the proceedings in the above case.
September 1, 1842
J. P. L. S. [p. [1]]
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Editorial Title
Docket Entry, circa 24 May 1842, Copy [State of Illinois v. C. L. Higbee]
ID #
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Total Pages
2
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    TEXT: “L. S.” (locus sigilli, Latin for “location of the seal”) enclosed in a hand-drawn representation of a seal.

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