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Scott County court case, Durant vs Dexter, July 1856

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of their interest in said notes and demand proof of the same and of each allegation relating thereto.
Defendants admit that at the time of the service of the writ of injunction on said Dexter said Lindley denies having said papers or any of them at the time of the service of the said writ, or at any time since - They admit that said Dexter refused and still refuses to deliver said notes & Deed of Trust to complainant or any part of the same - Defendants deny that they claim the right to assign and deliver all of said notes to said Burrows or to any one else on payment of said $40,000 due to Lee Higginson & Co.
And having now fully answered, defendants ask that the injunction herein granted be dissolved and that defendants be dismissed &c.
(signed)
James J. Lindley, per se
& atty for Lee Higginson & Co.
& Edward Dexter.

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of their interest in said notes and demand proof of the same and of each allegation relating thereto. Defendants admit that at the time of the service of the writ of injunction on said Dexter said Lindley denies having said papers or any of them at the time of the service of the said writ, or at any time since - They admit that said Dexter refused and still refuses to deliver said notes & Deed of Trust to complainant or any part of the same - Defendants deny that they claim the right to assign and deliver all of said notes to said Burrows or to any one else on payment of said $40,000 due to Lee Higginson & Co. And having now fully answered, defendants ask that the injunction herein granted be dissolved and that defendants be dismissed &c. (signed) James J. Lindley, per se & atty for Lee Higginson & Co. & Edward Dexter.