In the District Court of the 3rd Judicial District of Washington Territory holding terms at Seattle in and for the counties of King Kitsap and Snohomish
In the matter of the application of David Hughes Alexander S Hughes, Joseph Brannan James Boyd and David Hart, for a writ of Habeas Corpus against Lewis V. Wycoff, Sheriff of King County Washington Territory
To the Hon. J. R. Lewis Judge of the District Court of the 3rd Judicial District of Washington Territory holding terms at Seattle
The petition of Alexander S Hughes David Hughes Joseph Brannan James Boyd and David Hart respectfully show
That they your said petitioners are unlawfully imprsoned, detained, and restrained of their liberty by Lewis V. Wycoff Sheriff of King County Washington Territory at the county jail of said County in the city of Seattle in the Territory of Washington
That according to the best of the knowledge and belief of your petitioners the cause or pretense of said restraint is that an order was made on the 14th of May 1875 by one D. S. Smith as Justice of the Peace in and for Seattle Precinct in said County of King, which said order has been served on your petitioners and requires Alexander Hughes to recognize to keep the peace towards one Josiah Gellerson on all of the people of said Territory for and during the term of six months now next ensuing, in the sum of $500 and the other petitioners in the sum of $300 each to the same end, and to pay the costs of said proceeding equally — and to stand committed in said County Jail until said recognizance are given and costs paid an indefinite period of time,
Your petitioners say that said imprisonment is illegal in this — that your petitioners are sentenced to prison for an indefinite period of time.
Your petitioners further say that they nor neither of them have at any time threatened to commit an offense against the person or property of Josiah Gellerson or any other person
David Hughes
Alexander S. Hughes
Joseph Brannon
James Boyd
David Hart
