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Joseph Wells v. William A Church & Martha Church. Joseph Wells being duly 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 Walla Walla County } SS

I Joseph Wells being first duly sworn depose and say that I am the Plff that I have heard the foregoing reply read and verily believe said reply is true

Joseph Wells

Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 3rd day of Dec 1877

A Reese Ayers

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. Joseph Wells being duly 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.0008.010

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