Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. M. E. Baldwin, Judgment

Place of Creation
Jefferson County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Legal/Financial
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867
Box / Folder
BR13-324 to BR13-325
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1792
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32204679

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Dates
1864-10
1864-12-08
1864-08-05
1865-05-01
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. M. E. Baldwin, Judgment, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-004-1792 (November 13, 2026).

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State of Kentucky
Jefferson Circuit

[...]October Term 1864
December 8 1864.
The Commonwealth } Plff
vs
M E Baldwin } Deft.

The defendant being solemnly called to appear or discharge of the recognizance entered into by him in the City Court of Louisville on the 5 day of August 1864, came not but made default. It is therefore considered by the Court that the Clerk of this Court issue a summons in the nature of a scire-facias against the said M E Baldwin together with W G Gaslin his bail returnable to the first day of the next term of this Court to shew cause if any they have or can why the Commonwealth shall not have judgment and execution thereon against them for four hundred dollars each, according to the form and effect of said recognizance, and for a breach of the Condition thereof

Order of Judge

And at a Court continued and held for the Jefferson Circuit on the first day of May 1865 came the plaintiff by attorney and the defendant W H Gazlin being duly summoned and failing to answer It is

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considered by the Court that the plaintiff recover of said defendant the sum of four hundred dollars the debt in the summons mentioned also her costs herein expended and May have Exentd.

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