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1787 Supreme Court Session - Samuel Sparrow v John George and Andrew Cumming (S.C. 1787) (1) Debt (2) Capias & Praecipe (3) Affidavit of debts & Accounts (4) Bail (5) Rule to Plead

[25a] 

... Capias for Samuel Sparrow Merchant against John George and Andrew Cumming late of Halifax Cabinet Makers, Upholsterers and Copartners ... Damage £50 By oath for £22,, 11,, 4 ... Issued 24^th March 1787 ... 

[25b]

To the Sherriff of the County of Halifax ... Greeting We Command you, that you take John George and Andrew Cumming late of Halifax Cabinet Makers, and [sic] upholsterers, & Copartners in Trade ... so that you may have them before us in our Supreme Court in Halifax on the Second Tuesday of April next, to answer to Samuel Sparrow Merchant in a plea of Trespass on the Case as by Declaration to be filed in due time may appear ... this twenty fourth Day of October in the twenty Sixth Year of our Reign ... 1786 ... Issued 24^th March 1787 ...

[25c]

... Samuel Sparrow of Halifax Merchant the Plaintiff in this Cause Maketh Oath ... Defendants John George and Andrew Cumming late of Halifax Cabinet makers, Upholsterers and Co-partners in Trade ...
Sworn before me this       }
24.^th Day of march 1787 }  [Signed] Sam Sparrow

[24d]

... John George is delivered on bail ... 3:^rd A.D. 1787 

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Filed 3^d Apr 1787 ...

[25e] 

... John George is delivered upon Bail ... 14t^h Ap^e 1787 ...

[25f]

... John George one of The Defened^ts in this Cause puts in his Stead, Richard John Uniacke, as his Attorney ... Dated third Day of April .. 1787 ...

[Source: Public Archives of Nova Scotia, R.G. 39 "C" [Hx], Volume 50, # 25]

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