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Introduction to Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS Promissory Note to Robert D. Foster, 20 March 1843 Declaration, circa 25 March 1849 [Green v. Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Praecipe, circa 25 March 1849 [Green v. Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Summons, 26 March 1849 [Green v. Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Summons, 3 April 1849 [Green v. Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Plea, circa 15 April 1849 [Green v. Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Docket Entry, Dismissal, 17 April 1849 [Green v. Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Demurrer, circa 17 April 1849 [Green v. Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Docket Entry, Demurrer, 18 April 1849 [Green v. Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Docket Entry, Demurrer Overruled and Nonsuit, 19 April 1849 [Green v. Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Case File Wrapper, circa April 1849–A [Green v. Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS] Case File Wrapper, circa April 1849–B [Green v. Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS]

Docket Entry, Demurrer Overruled and Nonsuit, 19 April 1849 [Green v. Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS]

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Docket Entry, Demurrer Overruled and Nonsuit, [
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, 19 Apr. 1849], Green v. Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1849); Hancock County Circuit Court Record, vol. E, p. 303; handwriting probably of
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; Hancock County Courthouse, Carthage, IL; microfilm at FHL.

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Ephra[i]m S Green)
vs) Debt
John M. Ferris Administrator)
de bonis non

“Of goods not administered.” When an executor or administrator of an estate that has not been fully settled cannot perform the remaining duties, an administrator de bonis non is appointed.

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of the estate of)
Joseph Smith decd)
And now came on to be heard the
demurrer

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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to the 2nd plea herein filed and the Court being fully advised in the premises doth order that said demurrer be overruled and the plaintiff abides his demurrer and takes a
non suit

“A judgment given against a plaintiff, when he is unable to prove his case, or when he refuses or neglects to proceed to trial of a cause after it has been put at issue, without determining such issue.”

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herein, It is therefore ordered that the said defendant have and recover of the plaintiff his costs by him herein expended and that he have execution therefor
And the plaintiff moves for leave to withdraw papers filed herein which is allowed [p. 303]
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Green v. Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS, Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court, 19 April 1849

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Docket Entry, Demurrer Overruled and Nonsuit, 19 April 1849 [Green v. Ferris Administrator of the Estate of JS]
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