Abstracts from District
Court Minutes
Live Oak Co., Texas
Spring Term - April 1857
Volume 1, Page 59, District Court Minutes
Live Oak County, Texas
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State vs. King |
The State of Texas vs.
James P. King - Manslaughter No other information. |
State vs. Robinson |
The State of Texas vs.
Jesse Robinson Bail Bond for Appearance "In this cause the Grand Jury having ___ [illegible] to find a true bill against the deft., and no affidavit having been made asking the defendant Robinson to be detained in custody, It is ordered by the Court that the said prosecution be dismissed and that the defendant Jesse Robinson & Archibald McNeill and Richard McFadden his securities go hence without day." |
Williams vs. Williams |
The Heirs of Richard
Williams vs. E. Williams The plaintiff, represented by his attorney, says that he will not further prosecute and the case is dismissed. |
Hardy vs. Hardy |
Edward Hardy vs. Lucy W.
Hardy Case No. 9 - Divorce "This cause coming on to be heard Jury of the following good and lawful men were impaneled to wit: D.M. Davis, R.D. Dean, W. Bartlett, H. Waller, B. McFadden, J. Hinton, J.T. James, D. C. Shannon, who having heard the evidence the argument of counsel, retired and having considered the same brought in the following orders to wit: We the jury find that the defendant has been guilty of cruel treatment excess and outrages towards the Plaintiff and that living with her is unsupportable. Whereupon it is ordered, adjudged and decreed by the Court that the bonds of Matrimony heretofore existing between Edward Hardy and Lucy W. Hardy be and the same are hereby dissolved And it is further ordered that the Plaintiff have and recover of the defendant all costs in this behalf expended for which execution may issue." [Note: The second part of the above was completed on Page 60.] |
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