Harvey v. Harvey

This was an action for an assault and battery brought by Cassandra Harvey against William and Maston Harvey. There are several pleas, the third of which is to the following effect:

The defendants say actio non, because they say that, after the committing of said trespass, and before the commencement of this suit, to-wit, on, &c., at, &c., the plaintiff made her writing obligatory, with Davis Meek and Thomas J. Richards, which writing is as follows:

Know all men by these presents, that we, Cassandra J. Harvey, Davis Meek, and Thomas J. Richards, of, &c., are held and firmly bound to William…