Docket Entry, Demurrer, 22 May 1844, Copy [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge]

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Introduction to C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge Ordinance, 1 March 1841–D, Thomas Bullock Copy Ordinance, 1 March 1841–E, Thomas Bullock Copy Praecipe, 9 May 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Summons, 9 May 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Declaration, circa 9 May 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Praecipe, 10 May 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Subpoena, 10 May 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Praecipe, circa 20 May 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Subpoena, 21 May 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Demurrer, circa 21 May 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Docket Entry, Demurrer, 22 May 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Docket Entry, Demurrer, 22 May 1844, Copy [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Affidavit, 23 May 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Affidavit, 24 May 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Docket Entry, Withdrawn Demurrer, 27 May 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Docket Entry, Withdrawn Demurrer, 27 May 1844, Copy [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Pleas, circa 27 May 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Affidavit, 28 May 1844–A [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Affidavit, 28 May 1844–B [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Docket Entry, Motion, Change of Venue, and Pleas, 28 May 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Docket Entry, Motion, Change of Venue, and Pleas, 28 May 1844, Copy [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Demurrer, circa 28 May 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Docket Entry, Sustained Demurrer, 29 May 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Docket Entry, Sustained Demurrer, 29 May 1844, Copy [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Bill of Costs, 10 August 1844–A [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Bill of Costs, 10 August 1844–B [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Transcript of Proceedings, 10 August 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Docket Entry, Fee Bill, between 16 August and circa 24 October 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Case File Wrapper, circa October 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Docket Entry, Certificate of Levy, 4 November 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Praecipe, circa 13 August 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Subpoena, 14 August 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge] Affidavit, 26 August 1844 [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge]
Docket Entry, Demurrer, 22 May 1844, Copy [C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge]
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Carthage
Located eighteen miles southeast of Nauvoo. Settled 1831. Designated Hancock Co. seat, Mar. 1833. Incorporated as town, 27 Feb. 1837. Population in 1839 about 300. Population in 1844 about 400. Site of acute opposition to Latter-day Saints, early 1840s. Site...
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, Hancock Co., IL], 22 May 1844, C. A. Foster v. JS and Coolidge (McDonough Co., IL, Circuit Court 1844). Copied 10 Aug. 1844 in Transcript of Proceedings, [1, 7–8]; handwriting of
Jacob B. Backenstos
8 Oct. 1811–25 Sept. 1857. Merchant, sheriff, soldier, politician, land speculator. Born at Lower Paxton, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania. Son of Jacob Backenstos and Margaretha Theis. Member of Lutheran Reformed Church. Married Sarah Lavina Lee, niece of Robert...
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; certified by
Jacob B. Backenstos
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, 10 Aug. 1844; docket by
Jacob B. Backenstos
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Carthage
Located eighteen miles southeast of Nauvoo. Settled 1831. Designated Hancock Co. seat, Mar. 1833. Incorporated as town, 27 Feb. 1837. Population in 1839 about 300. Population in 1844 about 400. Site of acute opposition to Latter-day Saints, early 1840s. Site...
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, Hancock Co., IL, 10 Aug. 1844]; notation by James M. Campbell, [
Macomb
Incorporated as city, 1841. McDonough Co. seat. JS’s brother Don Carlos Smith lived nearby Macomb, 1839. Branch of church organized in city, June 1839.
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, McDonough Co., IL], 12 Aug. 1844; McDonough County Circuit Court Files, Illinois Regional Archives Depository vault, Archives and Special Collections, Leslie F. Malpass Library, Western Illinois University, Macomb. Includes seal.

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May 22nd. A.D. 1844

This day came the defendants by their attorney and filed their
Demurer
English common law courts developed a complex process of pleading in civil suits that required the parties to file a series of legal documents, or pleadings, in order to define the dispute precisely. Courts in England’s American colonies and, later, in the...
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Sept. 1815–1904. Physician, pharmacist. Born in England, likely in Braunston, Northamptonshire. Son of John Foster and Jane Knibb. Immigrated to U.S., arriving in New York on 27 June 1831. Moved to Hancock Co., Illinois, by Feb. 1843. Publisher of Nauvoo ...
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