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Joseph Wells v.William A Church & Martha Church. William A. Church being sworn

Petition Date

December 3, 1877

Earliest Record Date

December 3, 1877

Record Type

Case

Place(s)

  • Walla Walla County (Wash.)

People

  • Wells, Joseph (Petitioner)
  • Church, Martha (Defendant)
  • Church, William A. (Defendant)
  • Lasater, James H. (Attorney petitioner)
  • Caton, Nathan T. (Attorney defendant)
  • Wingard, Samuel C. (Judge)
 

Territory of Washington County of Walla Walla } ss

William A Church being first duly sworn says he is one of the defendants above that the foregoing answer to the writ of Habeas Corpus and petition is true as he   verily believes

William A Church

Subscribed & sworn to before me this December 3 1877

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Clerk

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Joseph Wells v.William A Church & Martha Church. William A. Church being sworn.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed November 23, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.wa.0008.005

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