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Civil Procedure and Courts

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Habeus corpus

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230310515]
Identifier: MSS SC 1313
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed writ of habeus corpus dated 9 September 1858. The document concerns a custody case between Amos M. Musser and Almerin Grow over Grow's daughter Amy.

Dates: 1858 September 9
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Habeus corpus

William Adams Hickman petition

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230310747]
Identifier: MSS SC 1288
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed petition. This petition is a "writ of prohibition" of John M. Wallace to the Honorable Charles E. Sinclair, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah, by Wallace's attorney, William A. Hickman. The item claims that Justic of the Peace, Jeter Clinton, collected illicit fines from a Utah "gambling house."

Dates: 1859
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Adams Hickman petition

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