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                      Fall Term AD 1899  
                         Thursday Dec 21st
        State of Florida }
                Vs       } Not a True Bill
        Pinckney Jones   }  J.R. Flewellen Foreman Grand Jury

        Charles A. Gilchrist }
                Vs           } Replevin
        Belford Branch       }
                      And now on this day this cause came on to be heard and it
        appearing that a default Judgment had been rendered herein against
        the defendant on the fourth day of December 1899 the same being Rule
        day  Whereupon a Jury was called to hear the issues involved in this
        suit and there came A.J. Bates T.R. Pickett O.P. Cannon E. Baird
        T.L. Brown T.A. Sewell who were duly empanelled and sworn to well and
        truly try the issues involved in this cause and a true verdict give
        according to the evidence And the Jury aforesaid after hearing
        the evidence and charge of the Court retired to consider of their
        verdict, And after due consideration thereof returned into open
        Court and rendered the following verdict to wit:
Verdict    We the Jury find that the plaintiff is entitled to the
        possession of the following property to wit: One old black horse
        mule named "Blood" of the value of seventy five dollars and one
        white ox with small brindle spots with right ear cropped and left ear
        with two up and down slits of the value of thirty dollars and one red ox with
        little white spots branded on the hip of the value of thirty dollars.
        We also find that the plaintiffs entitled to the sum of Ninety three 75/100
        Dollars as damages for the detention of the same
        This Dec 21st 1899                  O.P. Cannon
                                                Foreman
          Whereupon it is considered ordered and adjudged by the
        Court that the plaintiff do have and recover from the said
        defendant the possession of the following property to wit
        One old black horse mule named "Blood" of the value of seventy five
        dollars: One white ox with small brindle spots with right ear cropped
        and left ear with two up and down slits of the value of Thirty dollars:
        and one Red ox with little white spots branded on the hip of the
        value of Thirty dollars of the aggregate value of One hundred and
        thirty five dollars. And it is further ordered and adjudged by the
        Court that the plaintiff Charles A. Gilchrist do have and recover from the
        said defendant Belford Branch the sum of Ninety three 75/100 Dollars as
        damages for the detention of the said above described property
          And it further appearing that the property was returned
        to the defendant on his forthcoming bond therefore upon consideration
        hereof it is ordered and adjudged that the plaintiff do have and recover
        of and from the said defendant Belford Branch and his sureties on
        said forthcoming bond H.R. May and J.D. Easterlin the sum of -
Transcribed by Charlotte Vallellanes 24 May 2015
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