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William Shockley on Jury, Griffith vs Bradley and Sweany, April 20, 1821 White County, Tennessee - Minute Book 6, 1820 - 1823
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This day came the plaintiff by his Attorney and thereupon came a Jury of good and lawful men Towit: Shadrack Price, Charles Smith, Jesse Mailly (Hailly?),
Phillip Mallory, Charles Manning, Abraham Broyles, William May, Elijah Lewis, John Findley, William Shockley, William Price and William Lisk, who being elected tried and sworn the truth to speak, and well and truly to inquire and
say whicher the plaintiff was or was not security in a certain writing obligatory for the sum of two hundred and fourteen dollars twenty cents executted by the defendants and the plaintiff in this cause to a certain Joshua Bartlett
upon which Judgement was rendered at the present term of this Court in favor of the said Joshua against the Defendants and plaintiff in this cause at the present term of the Court for this aforesaid some of two hundred and fourteen
dollars twenty cents and a the further some of twenty four dollars for damages occasioned by the detention thereof. And the said Jurors having heard of the testimony upon their oaths do say that the said Benjamin Griffith the
above plaintiff in that this cause was only security in said writing obligatory aforesaid given by said Defendants and plaintive to the said Joshua Bartlett and that he hath as security paid to the said Joshua Bartlett the full
amount of said debt and damages, in all amounting to the sum of two hundred and thirty eight dollars and twenty cents. Therefore on motion of the plaintiff by his Attorney it is considered by the Court that the said Benjamin
Griffith recover against the said John Bradley and Arthur M. C. Sweeney the sum of two hundred and thirty eight dollars and twenty cents, the amount of the Judgment with damages aforesaid writing obligatory recovered by the
said Joshua Bartlett against the Defendants and plaintiffs in this cause together with his cost of motion in this behalf expended. Whereupon the plaintiff here in open Court acknowledges the receipt and payment of sixty five
dollars, part of the consideration upon which the above judgement is founded, therefore as to that sum of the said defendants are discharged &c. |
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