Declaration, circa 7 June 1842 [United States v. Haws et al.]
Source Note
, Declaration, [, ca. 7 June 1842], U.S. v. Haws et al. (U.S. District Court for the District of IL 1842). Copied [11 June 1842] in Transcript of Proceedings, U.S. District Court for the District of Illinois, Complete Record, 1819–1842, vol. 1, pp. 529–531; unidentified handwriting; National Archives at Chicago, Chicago.
and to be paid by the said defendants to the said when the said defendants should be thereunto afterwards requested, whereby and by reason of the said last mentioned sum of money being and remaining wholly unpaid, an hath accrued to the said to demand and have of and from the said defendants the said sum of Five thousand one hundred and thirty three dollars and sixty two cents, the residue of the said sum above demanded.
Yet the said defendants (although often requested so to do,) have not as yet paid the said sum of ten thousand dollars first above demanded or any part thereof, to the said , but they to do this have hitherto wholly refused, and still do refuse, to the damage of the said of Four thousand dollars, and therefore he brings suit &c. [p. 531]