Docket Entry, Dismissal, 29 October 1844 [JS v. O. Cowdery]

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Docket Entry, Dismissal, 29 October 1844 [JS v. O. Cowdery]
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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], [29 Oct. 1844], JS v. O. Cowdery (Hancock Co., IL, Circuit Court 1844); Hancock County
Chancery
The court of chancery, also known as equity, emerged in fourteenth-century England as an alternative to the common law courts, which over preceding centuries had developed complicated and strict rules of procedure, governed by precedent. Partial compliance...
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Record, vol. C, p. 170; handwriting of
David E. Head
27 Apr. 1818–1 May 1877. Clerk, merchant. Born in Washington Co., Kentucky. Moved to Macomb, McDonough Co., Illinois, ca. 1834. Deputy clerk of McDonough Co. Deputy clerk of Hancock Co., Illinois, circuit court, by 16 May 1843. Clerk of Hancock Co. Circuit...
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Historical Introduction
See Introduction to JS v. O. Cowdery.
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Joseph Smith)

vs) Bill of
Injunction
A prohibitory writ “restraining a person from committing or doing an act . . . which appear[s] to be against equity and conscience.”
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Oliver Cowd[e]ry
3 Oct. 1806–3 Mar. 1850. Clerk, teacher, justice of the peace, lawyer, newspaper editor. Born at Wells, Rutland Co., Vermont. Son of William Cowdery and Rebecca Fuller. Raised Congregationalist. Moved to western New York and clerked at a store, ca. 1825–1828...
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Ordered that this suit be dismissed for want of prosecution [p. 170]
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Docket Entry, Dismissal, 29 October 1844 [JS v. O. Cowdery]
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