Hacker  vs  Wingate

 Box 35

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William Hacker  VS  Smith Wingate
Common Pleas Court     Box 35
Demand $250.00
Filed May 13th 1857     Alex Miller, Clerk Issued

State of Indiana Common Pleas Court
Shelby County       SS                            June Term 1857

            William Hacker  complains of  Smith Wingate  and says that the defendant on the 25th day of December 1856 by his note a copy of which is filed herewith promised to pay James E. Robertson one day after date Six dollars and fifty five cents, who endorsed said note to the plaintiff which remains unpaid.
            2d And the plaintiff further says that the said defendant on the 25th day of December 1856 by his note a copy of which is filed herewith promised to pay  William C. Miller  and  James E. Robertson  tradeing[sic] under the name and style of  W. C. Miller & Co. one day after date two hundred and thirty five dollars and 72 cents who endorsed the note to the plaintiff which remains unpaid by which the said plaintiff says the Defendant is now indebted to him in the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars and on which the plaintiff demands payment.
                                            William Hacker Plff

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Copy of Note

            $6.55 Dec 25 1856 one day after date I promise to pay to James E. Robertson or order six dollars and fifty five cents with interest value received without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws.
Smith Wingate        

            $235.72 December 25th 1856 One day after date I promise to pay to W. C. Miller & Co. or order Two hundred and thirty five dollars and 72 cents with interest value received without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws.
Smith Wingate                
 
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Summons
William Hacker  VS  Smith Wingate
Summons         Complaint         Demand $250.00
Returnable on 1st Monday in June 1857

            I received this writ May the 19th 1857.  Served as commanded May 19th 1857
                                            Squire L. Vanpelt     Sheriff S. C.

The State of Indiana, Shelby County, Sct:
            The State of Indiana, to the Sheriff of Shelby County, Greeting:
You are hereby commanded to summon Smith Wingate if he may be found in your bailiwick to appear before the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Shelby County on the second day of the next term of said Court, to be held at the Court House in Shelbyville the first Monday in June 1857 then and there to answer the complaint of William Hacker Damages Claimed two hundred and fifty dollars and herein he may not fail at his peril; and have you then there this writ.
            In Witness of Which, I Alex Miller Clerk of said Court, hereunto affix the seal thereof and subscribe my name at Shelbyville this 13th day of May A.D. 1857
Alex Miller Clerk by R. W. Miles, Deputy


Transcribed by Barb Huff

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