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Alexander S. Hughes et al. v. Lewis V. Wycoff. Response

Petition Date

May 15, 1875

Earliest Record Date

May 15, 1875

Record Type

Case

Place(s)

  • King County (Wash.)

People

  • Hughes, David (Petitioner)
  • Hughes, Alexander S. (Petitioner)
  • Brannan, Joseph (Petitioner)
  • Boyd, James (Petitioner)
  • Hart, David (Petitioner)
  • Wycoff, Lewis V. (Defendant)
  • Lewis, J. R. (Judge)
 

Territory of Washington

County of King SS.

Territory of Washington

v

Alexander S Hughes David Hughes James Boyd David Hart and Joseph Brannan

Defendants except to Sheriff return and say that notwithstanding he claims to hold them under said commitment the same is illegal.

For that these defendants never threatened to destroy to injure and destroy the property of of Josiah Gellerson and Geroge Gellerson as in any way on the 5th day of May or at any other time upon which they were convicted and upon which said commitment was issued

Alex S. Hughes
David D. Hughes
David Hart
James Boyd
Joseph Brannon

Subscribed and Sworn to before me this 15th day of May 1875 }

WH White

Notary Public

W.T.

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Alexander S. Hughes et al. v. Lewis V. Wycoff. Response.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed April 5, 2025. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.wa.0064.002

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