Name/Title
PetitionEntry/Object ID
JJA.1941.24Description
This is a legal document concerning the case of John James Audubon vs. Bowen. Document is attached to and between two sheets of paper. Handwritten. Transcription is as follows:
The Petition of John J. Audubon _______________ unto the Honorable _________________ a Circuit judge for the State of Kentucky that he has a suit depending in the Henderson Circuit court against him by William Rupell Bowen, Samuel Adams Bowen, Robert Speed, Obediah Smith, Bennett Marshall, George Brent & Edmund Townes. Your Petitioner states he believes he can not obtain a fair and impartial trial in said court owing to the undue influence of his adversaries. He therefore prays that the said suit may be removed by your honor to some other county where he can receive a fair and impartial trial of his ________ And in ________ ___________ (signed) John J. Audubon
This 20th. day of July 1819 came before me a justice of the peace for the county of Breckenridge, John J. Audubon and made oath the statements in the above petition are true given under my hand - (signed) Robert _____________
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The clerk of the Henderson Circuit Court _______ For the reason asigned in the within petition I have thought proper to change the venue of the within mentioned suit to the county of Davies - You will therefore please to transmit the papers appertaining thereto, to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County. Legal notice of the time & place of his applications was moved. This given under my hand this 24 July 1819 at Thomas Kincheloe's Tavern in Hardinsburg, Breckenridge County.
Henry P. Brodnaux, Judge
(next page) Audubon vs. Bowen - Kincheloe's Tavern - Caps. 25, Reto 12 1/2 due 8, Atte 8, Papers 103 53 1/2 121 $1.74Collection
J. C. Worsham CollectionMade/Created
Date made
1819 - 1819Notes
Date: July 24, 1819Lexicon
Search Terms
Document Types, Lawsuits, Hardinsburg (Ky.), Breckinridge County (Ky.), Henderson County (Ky.), Kentucky