Heaps v. Dunham

This was a bill in equity, brought by Israel G. Heaps, in the circuit court of Henry county, against Charles Dunham, Levi Waterman, O. L. Newell, William C. Smith, Eachael Smith, Lavina Snell and John Sittler, to enjoin the sale and collection of certain notes which had been given by the complainant to Levi Waterman in settlement of a prosecution instituted against the complainant by Lavina Snell before a justice of the peace for bastardy, and, as is alleged, in settlement of a threatened prosecution for seduction and rape. The bill also prays that certain moneys which had been paid under and…