Summons, 4 May 1844 [Phelps, Assignee of JS v. Wilson Law]
Summons, 4 May 1844 [Phelps, Assignee of JS v. Wilson Law]
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Source Note
on behalf of , Summons, to Sheriff [], for , , Hancock Co., IL, 4 May 1844, Phelps, Assignee of JS v. Wilson Law (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1843); printed form with manuscript additions in handwriting of ; docket printed with manuscript additions by , [, Hancock Co., IL, 4 May 1844]; notations printed with manuscript additions by , , IL, 6 May 1844; notation by , [, Hancock Co., IL], 7 May 1844; two pages; private possession; photocopy at Joseph Smith Papers. Includes seal.
This document was presumably filed in the Hancock County Circuit Court in , Illinois, in 1844. Sometime in the ensuing decades, it was removed from the custody of the court. In 2001, the Joseph Smith Papers Project obtained a photocopy of the original document when it was in the possession of George W. Givens, a document collector. The summons and other case documents for Phelps, Assignee of JS v. Wilson Law were sold in 2007 by Beehive Collector’s Gallery, a shop operated by Nyal Anderson in Salt Lake City. As of 2022, the document is presumably in private possession.
Footnotes
Beehive Antiques, “Mormon Documents,” lot 21, item 1.
Beehive Antiques. “Mormon Documents.” Catalogue 30. Salt Lake City, 2007.
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| State of Illinois,) | Sc[ilice]t. |
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The People of the State of , TO THE OF SAID —GREETING:
WE COMMAND YOU TO SUMMON if to be found in your , to appear before the Circuit Court of said county of , on the first day of the next term thereof, to be holden at the Court House, in , on the third Monday in the month of May Inst— to answer the complaint of assignee of Joseph Smith of a plea of on promises, to his damage, the sum of— Three Hundred & fifty Dollars, as he says. And have you there this writ, and make return thereon in what manner you execute the same.
[seal]
WITNESS, Clerk of our said Circuit Court, at , this Fourth day of May in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-four
Clerk. By Depy [p. [1]]
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