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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 } In District Court First Judicial District

Joseph Wells vs William A Church & Martha Church } Motion

Now comes the said Defendants and moves the court to strike out of the petition herein commencing at the words "that the real" in the third paragraph thereof and down to and including the words "attempted to do" on the ground that the same is irrelevant and scandalous

N.T. Catin

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.0008.011

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