Lawson v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Arkansas
This was an anomalous proceeding against the sheriff of the county of Pulaski, determined in the Pulaski Circuit Court, in December, 1842, before the Hon. John J. Chenbenin, one of the circuit judges.
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This was an anomalous proceeding against the sheriff of the county of Pulaski, determined in the Pulaski Circuit Court, in December, 1842, before the Hon. John J. Chenbenin, one of the circuit judges. On the 16th day of November, 1842, one Ira B. Whitmore exhibited, in the Circuit Court of Pulaski county, his petition, signed “Johnson & Ashley, atty. for Whitmore,” representing, in substance, that, on the 5th day of October, 1842, a warrant was issued by H. F. Shaw, a justice of the peace of Big Rock township, county of Pulaski, directed to the constable of said township, to take the body of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Ríngo, C. J.
The record of this most unique, extraordinary and unprecedented proceeding, exhibits such a multiplicity of inconsistencies, as are rarely to be seen in the history of judicial proceedings, and should never be suSered to find a place in judicial records. The whole proceeding appears to be based upon the petition of Whitmore, representing that certain moneys, bank notes, personal property, and Corporation notes of the city of Little Rock, belonging to him, had been unlawfully seized, and taken from his house and possession, by a certain constable, who had placed the…
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