Billy v. Jonathan Davis & James Kincaid. Summons of Jonathan Davis & James Kincaid
District of Columbia, to wit:
The United States of America,
To the Marshal of the District of Columbia, Greeting:
We command you, as we have often done before That you take Jonathan Davis and James Kincaid if they be found within the county of Alexandria, in your said District, and them safely keep, so that you have their bodies before the honorable the Judges of the United States' Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, for the county of Alexandria, at the Court-House in the town of Alexandria, at the next Court, to answer Negro Billy an Infant (by Thomas Braddock his next friend) who sues in forma pauperis for his freedom of a Plea of Trespass, Assault & Battery & false Imprisonment. Damage Two hundred dollars
And have then there this Writ.....Witness, the Honorable William Cranch, Chief Judge of our said Court, this 9th day of March 1819.
Edm: J. Lee CC
Negro Billy an Infant by Thos: Braddock
vs
Jonathan Davis and James Kincaid
Als. Pls. Caps:
For the recovery of the Plaintiff's Freedom
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D Minor DM
for T. Ringgold Marshal
Lee
