Writ printed for case of Russell V. Nortons. From P. Tinsley, (clerk of High Court of Chancery), to Sheriff of Frederick County. Summons to John Hatley Norton and George F. Norton, surviving partners of house of John Norton & Sons, to answer complaint of Armistead Russell.

Writ printed for case of Russell V. Nortons. From P. Tinsley, (clerk of High Court of Chancery), to Sheriff of Frederick County. Summons to John Hatley Norton and George F. Norton, surviving partners of house of John Norton & Sons, to answer complaint of Armistead Russell.

Printed form completed in manuscript.

MS1936.3.2272
Folder 220

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THE Commonwealth of Virginia, to the Sheriff of Frederick County
greeting: You are hereby commanded to attach John Hatley Norton and
George Flowerdieu Norton surviving partners of the house of John Norton &
sons
so that you have their bodies before the Judge of the High Court of Chancery at
the Capitol in the City of Richmond, on the 17th day of the next Court, to
answer us as well of a certain contempt by them to us offered, as it is said, as
upon those things which to them shall then and there be objected: and further
to do and receive what our said Court shall in that part consider. And have then there
this writ: Witness GEORGE WYTHE, Judge of our said Court, at Richmond, this
24th day of March 1794 and in the 18th year of the Commonwealth.
For not Answering the Bill of complaint exhibited against
them in the said Court, by Armistead Russell

By rule of Court.
P. Tinsley C.C.

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Russell
v } Naua
Nortons

March 24. 1794