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Wong Sam et al. v. E. V. Rugar. Quong Being Sworn

Petition Date

April 10, 1888

Earliest Record Date

April 10, 1888

Record Type

Case

Place(s)

  • King County (Wash.)

People

  • Sam, Wong (Petitioner)
  • Gee, Foke (Petitioner)
  • Moke (Petitioner)
  • Sam, Chin (Petitioner)
  • Zee (Petitioner)
  • Hing, Wong (Petitioner)
  • Rugar, E. V. (Defendant)
  • Osborn, Richard (Attorney petitioner)
  • Jones, Richard A. (Judge)
 

Territory of Washington

County of King

Ah Quong being duly sworn on oath states that he is the person who makes the foregoing petition on behalf of the plaintiffs therein named. that he has heard the said foregoing petition read knows the contents thereof and believes the same to be true

Ah Quong

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of April 1888

Richard Osborn

Notary Public

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Wong Sam et al. v. E. V. Rugar. Quong Being Sworn.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed December 11, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.wa.0087.002

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