Fee Bill, circa May 1846 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.]

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Introduction to Sweeney v. Miller et al. Promissory Note, 16 April 1841 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Promissory Note, 16 April 1841, Guy C. Sampson Copy [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Praecipe, 7 April 1842 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Recognizance, 7 April 1842 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Declaration, circa 18 April 1842 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Declaration, circa 18 April 1842, Copy [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Docket Entry, Judgment, 5 May 1842 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Scire Facias, 15 August 1842 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Docket Entry, Scire Facias, between 16 August and circa 27 September 1842 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Docket Entry, Pleas, 3 October 1842 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Docket Entry, Replication, 4 October 1842 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Docket Entry, Execution, 5 October 1842 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Docket Entry, circa 5 October 1842 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Docket Entry, Alias Fieri Facias, circa 23 April 1843 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Fee Bill, circa April 1843 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Praecipe, 15 January 1844 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Docket Entry, Pluries Fieri Facias, between 3 April and circa 4 May 1844 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Docket Entry, Fee Bill, between 17 April and 16 July 1845 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Assignment of Judgment, 14 August 1845 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Receipt, 12 November 1845 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Praecipe, 28 November 1845 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Docket Entry, Venditioni Exponas, between 16 December 1845 and circa 11 March 1846 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Assignment of Judgment, 4 April 1846 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Certificate, 4 May 1846 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Certificate, 4 May 1846, as Recorded in Old Certificates of Purchase, Levy, and Redemption [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Fee Bill, circa May 1846 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.] Deed, 5 August 1847 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.]
Fee Bill, circa May 1846 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.]
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Fee Bill, [
Carthage
Located eighteen miles southeast of Nauvoo. Settled 1831. Designated Hancock Co. seat, Mar. 1833. Incorporated as town, 27 Feb. 1837. Population in 1839 about 300. Population in 1844 about 400. Site of acute opposition to Latter-day Saints, early 1840s. Site...
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, Hancock Co., IL, ca. May 1846], Sweeney v. Miller et al. (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1842); Hancock County Circuit Court, Fee Book F, p. 240; handwriting of
Matthias Avise
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; Hancock County Courthouse, Carthage, IL.

Historical Introduction
See Introduction to Sweeney v. Miller et al.
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TEXT: The fee bill was written on a two-page spread, with the plaintiff’s costs on the left and the defendant’s costs on the right.
Hugh J. Sween[e]y Plaintiff

Plaintiffs cost

Clerks fees Oct term 1842

Issuing
Sci. fa. [scire facias]
A writ “founded upon some record, and requiring the defendant to show cause why the plaintiff should not have the advantage of such record.” Examples of its use were to revive a judgment not yet executed, “in order to give an opportunity to the defendant ...
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1.93¾ Filing 2 papers 12½ 2 06¼

Ent[ering] Plaintiffs appearance 12½ Attorney 12½ 25

Docketing suit 1 term 12½ Ent.
replication
English common law courts developed a complex process of pleading in civil suits that required the parties to file a series of legal documents, or pleadings, in order to define the dispute precisely. Courts in England’s American colonies and, later, in the...
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25 37½

Ent. Judgment <order to make party to Judgt> 25 Satisfaction 25 50 <25> 2 93¾

Issuing docketing & filing
fi fa
Abbreviated “fi. fa.” It is a writ of execution “that lies for him who has recovered any debt or damages. . . . It is a command to the sheriff, that of the goods and chattels of the party he cause to be made the sum recovered by the judgment.”
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68¾ Ent. return 12½ 81¾

Making & Ent. fee Bill 37½ Certificate & Seal 50 87½ 4 87½

Sheriffs fees
Backenstos <J[acob] B.>
8 Oct. 1811–25 Sept. 1857. Merchant, sheriff, soldier, politician, land speculator. Born at Lower Paxton, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania. Son of Jacob Backenstos and Margaretha Theis. Member of Lutheran Reformed Church. Married Sarah Lavina Lee, niece of Robert...
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Insertion in handwriting of Jacob B. Backenstos.

Serving Sci. fa 50 making copy 1.75 return 12½ 2 37½

18 miles travel 1.12½ 1 12½ 3 50

$7.37½

This fee Bill is copied on Page 93 of This Fee Book [29 lines blank]

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TEXT: The defendant’s costs inscribed on the right-hand page begin here.
vs
George Miller
25 Nov. 1794–after July 1856. Carpenter, mill operator, lumber dealer, steamboat owner. Born near Stanardsville, Orange Co., Virginia. Son of John Miller and Margaret Pfeiffer. Moved to Augusta Co., Virginia, 1798; to Madison Co., Kentucky, 1806; to Boone...
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defendant On
Sci Fa
A writ “founded upon some record, and requiring the defendant to show cause why the plaintiff should not have the advantage of such record.” Examples of its use were to revive a judgment not yet executed, “in order to give an opportunity to the defendant ...
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Defts costs

Clerks fees

Ent. defts appearance 12½ Attorney 12½ 25

Ent. & filing plea 31¼ Making & Ent fee Bill 37½ 68¾

Certificate & Seal 50 50 1 43¾

No docket fee on this case ☞ See Page 93 of this F. Book. [36 lines blank] [p. 240]
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Fee Bill, circa May 1846 [Sweeney v. Miller et al.]
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Matthias Avise
Jacob B. Backenstos
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TEXT: The fee bill was written on a two-page spread, with the plaintiff’s costs on the left and the defendant’s costs on the right.
Insertion in handwriting of Jacob B. Backenstos.
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TEXT: The defendant’s costs inscribed on the right-hand page begin here.