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James Riley v. Egbert H. Tucker. Surety

 
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Know all men by these present that are to wit which on principal and a sentence on hold and firmly bound into the Territory of Washington in the sum of Twenty and no[?] Dollars for the payment of which one guilty and severally bound sureties[?] and heirs executors and administrators.

Sealed with one seal. Dated this 21th day of August A.D. 1861.

The condition of the obligation is such that if the said Robert White will appear at the next term of the District Court in and for the second Judicial District of the Territory of Washington to be begun and held on the first Monday in September next at Olympia W. T. on the first day thereof and remain in attendance from day to day until discharged by due process of law from further attendance I shall give his testimony in a certain cause then and there to be heard wherein the Territory of Washington is plaintiff and James Riley defendant, on a complaint for an assault with intent to kill on John McLeod and for Malicious Mayhem, then this obligation to be null and void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.

Signed sealed and delivered in presence of

Robert White seal

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “James Riley v. Egbert H. Tucker. Surety.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed November 30, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.wa.0105.008

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