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Joseph Wells v.William A Church & Martha Church. Motion

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 } District Court First Jud Dist

Joseph Wells vs William A Church & Martha Church } motion

Now came Defts by N.T. Caten their attorney and moves the court to grant until Tuesday December 1877 at 3 o'clock PM for the production of the body of Matty Wells and faces[?] the same in the affadavit hereto attended

N.T. Caten

Atty for Defts

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. Motion.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed November 27, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.wa.0008.007

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