File consists of 2 documents: Affidavit of Mrs. Nesbitt; Affidavit of E. Irving. In the matter of W. Dickson, an infant. Upon the death of his father, the boy and his brother had been left in the care of the Irvings. Upon his brother's death, the boy had been sent to the Nesbitt family in Victoria 'for change'. Irving charges that the Nesbitts will no longer allow them to visit with the boy and that his education and religious instruction are not being properly attended to by the Nesbitts. They are suing for full custody of the child.
File consists of 2 documents: Affidavit of C. Morton; Correspondence regarding Inspection of Poll Books. Morton, a hotelkeeper, is claiming the office of mayor in consequence of the illegal acts of J. Drummond. Morton and Drummond had both been candidates for the office of Mayor in Victoria by which Drummond won the election illegally.
File consists of 9 documents: Judgement by Default; Affidavit of E. Johnson; Receipt for $147.90; (2) Affidavit of Judgment Creditor; Writ of Summons; Affidavit of Service; Plaintiff's Costs; Judgement Creditor's Costs. The Plaintiff claims $382.11 for debt and $15 for costs for goods sold and delivered to the Defendant. The Plaintiff recovered $410 in a judgement and he claims that the said judgment remains unsatisfied.
File consists of 3 documents: Affidavit of Jungerman; Order to Issue Writ of Capias; Writ of Summons. Plaintiff claims that the Defendant is indebted to him for $170 as payee on an unpaid promissory note.
File consists of 4 documents: Writ of Summons; Judgement by Default; Plaintiff's Costs; Affidavit of Service. The Plaintiff's claim $1,477.12 for debt and $27.50 for costs for goods sold and delivered to the Defendant.
File consists of 2 documents: Exhibit "A" (Indenture); Receipt from the Mutual Life Insurance Company (Exhibit "B"). The Plaintiff and the Defendant had been carrying on business under the firm of "Jungerman and Rudolph", watchmakers. Jungerman was in debt to various parties and had agreed that the co-partnership was to be dissolved and to be carried on by Rudolph.
File consists of 3 documents: Order; Summons to the Defendant upon an Information or Complaint: Affidavit of R. Tomlinson. R. Tomlinson is housing a girl named Antangas against the will and consent of the girl's mother and guardian. Tomlinson is a missionary in charge of the Mission House belonging to the Church Missionary Society.
File consists of 2 documents: Writ of Summons; Affidavit of Service. Plaintiff claims $49.64 for debt and $12.50 for costs for goods supplied to the Defendants.
File consists of 3 documents: Affidavit to Hold to Bail; Affidavit of A. Glover; Affidavit of H.C. Courtney. Bunster bought some machinery from the Defendant and the Defendant did not then deliver in full as per the said agreement. The Plaintiff has learned that the Defendant is about to quit the colony for San Francisco and asks that he be apprehended.
File consists of 2 documents: Exhibit "A" (correspondence from R. Bishop); Joint Affidavit of G. Pearkes and J. Strachan. The action was brought about for the recovery of $2,000 in respect of the non-delivery of certain rubble and dimensional sandstone by the Defendants to the Plaintiff.
File consists of 1 document: Special Power of Attorney. Downie appoints Higgins as his attorney and in that regard to receive any sum or sums of money due to him by W. Searby, an insolvent debtor.
File consists of 2 documents: Affidavit of H.P. Walker for Execution of Registration under the Bill of Sale Act; Copy of Bill of Sale. Marvin and Wright advanced $3,000 to Brown and Adair for the purchase of a stern wheel steam vessel the "Victoria", built by Marvin and Wright.
File consists of 1 document: Order. Order that a perpetual injunction be awarded against the Defendant to restrain him and his workmen from proceeding with the cut and works in the Bill of Complaint in this cause mentioned and from doing any matter or thing whereby the quantity of water running in the Plaintiff's ditch or the supply of water for the same be in anyway stopped or affected.
File consists of 3 documents: Judgement by Default; Writ of Summons; Affidavit of Service. Plaintiff claims $378.24 principal due to him as payee on a promissory note from the Defendant.
File consists of 4 documents: Bill of Costs; Writ of Summons; Affidavit of Service; Judgement. The Plaintiff claims $171 for debt and $17 for costs as the amount due on a promissory note with the Defendant.
File consists of 2 documents: Order; Affidavit to Hold to Bail. The Defendants are justly and truly indebted to the Plaintiffs for $390 for principal money and interest due on a promissory note. The Plaintiffs are concerned that the Defendants are about to leave the colony and asks that they be apprehended.
File consists of 2 documents: Writ of Summons; Affidavit of H. Mason. The Plaintiffs claim $2,670 for debt and $7.50 for costs for goods sold and delivered by them to the Defendant at his request.
File consists of 7 documents: Writ of Summons; Affidavit of J. Austin; Receipt; Inventory; Regarding Summons (Statement of E. Anderson and R. Bishop); Affidavit of J. Copland; Affidavit of L. Gabriel. Plaintiff claims $397.88 principal due to him as payee on a promissory note with the Defendant.
File consists of 2 documents: Bill of Sale; Affidavit of G.A. Walkem. Regarding a mortgage in a conveyance of lot 24 in the town of Barkerville and the buildings thereon erected.
File consists of 5 documents: Writ of Habere facias possessionem; Affidavit of Service; Order to Seal Writ; Judgement; Judgement by Default. In regards to the possession of a parcel of land on Humboldt Street in Victoria. Wood is ordered as being fully entitled to the property. Costello was tenant on the property and seemed to be contesting ownership.
File consists of 4 documents: Affidavit of W.S. Green of Service of Notice to Decease; (2) Defendant's Bill of Costs; Judgement. - Plaintiffs had not declared in the action within the specific amount of time and the judge rules that the Defendant recover 3 pounds, 94 shillings for the costs of his defense.
File consists of 5 documents: Particulars of Plaintiff's demand; Record; Affidavit of P. Dunlevy; Summons; Order. The Plaintiffs, carrying on business as Dunlevy and Company, are suing the Defendant for converting to his own use and wrongfully depriving the Plaintiffs of the use and possession of the Plaintiff's goods that were to be carried by the Defendant from Quesnellemouth to Tatlah. They also sue the Defendant for money payable by the Defendant to the Plaintiffs for goods sold and delivered by the Plaintiffs to the Defendant at the Defendant's request. The Plaintiffs claim $5,000.
File consists of 5 documents: Affidavit of G.H. Cary; Affidavit of C.B. Young; Rule Discharged; Statement of W.M. Drake; Notice of Intent to Appeal. It is ruled that Mr. Young is not allowed to vote in Victoria. G.H. Cary has claimed that Mr. Young was a pawnbroker in San Francisco. Young objects to all of this, claiming he was born in England and has never taken the oath of allegiance in any foreign state.
File consists of 1 document: Affidavit of M. Phillips. In regards to unstated debts between the parties and the sale of a lot on Pandora Street in Victoria.
File consists of 3 documents: Summary Suit-Writ of Summons; Statement of F. Volkman; Correspondence between Cox and Colquan. Plaintiff is suing for the balance due in respect of wages on the "Pemberton Wagon Road", approximately $101.00.
File consists of 4 documents: Petition; Bill of Costs; Bill of Complaint; Advertisement. Defendants were indebted to the Plaintiff for $23,450.25 for principal interest and costs on certain pieces of property in Victoria. They are unable to pay and agree to the Plaintiff's wishes that the premises be sold by Public Auction
File consists of 3 documents: Affidavit of A. McKinnon; Affidavit of W. Culverwell; Affidavit of J. Parker. Parker had signed a promissory note for $1,500 with the Plaintiff, payable 90 days after the date when the note became due. He then signed a fresh note for the same amount, payable 60 days after the date due. Young is suing him for the amount due on the note and the Defendant believes that he has a good defense to the action.
File consists of 4 documents: Judgment by Default; Bill of Cost; Writ of Summons; Affidavit of Service. The Plaintiff claims $360.20 principal due to him as payee on an unpaid promissory note with the defendant.
File consists of 3 documents: Record; List of Names; Plaintiff's Bill of Costs. Pryce is suing the Defendant for 107 pounds, 12 shillings, and 6 pence for work done by the Plaintiff for the Defendant at his request and for money founds to be due from the Defendant to the Plaintiff on accounts stated between them.
File consists of 3 documents: Affidavit of Stronach. Defendant is justly and truly indebted to the Plaintiffs for 25 pounds, 14 shillings, and 6 pence being the balance owed to them on lumber supplied by the Plaintiffs to the Defendant at his request. The Plaintiffs believe that the Defendant will be leaving the colony unless he is apprehended.
File consists of 2 documents: Order; Affidavit of M. Drake. Defendant is allegedly indebted to the Plaintiff for $2,433.11. The Defendant is desirous of having a new trial on the grounds of a mistake by the jury in which they found a verdict for the Plaintiff.
File consists of 1 document: Writ of Summons (Statement of Account attached). The Plaintiffs complain that the Defendant is indebted to them for 122 pounds, 17 shillings, and 7 pence for goods sold and delivered by the Plaintiffs to the Defendant at his request and also for money due from the Defendant to the Plaintiffs on an account stated between them (particulars listed in the attached Statement of Account).
File consists of 1 document: Exception to Answers of Defendant D. McTavish. Document outlines why the answers of McTavish are insufficient and incorrect.
File consists of 4 documents: Order to Issue Writ of Caprias; Affidavit of N. Deutrux; Summons; Writ of Capias. Plaintiff claims that the Defendant is indebted to him for $189.57 for principal and interest money due on a promissory note.
File consists of 1 document: Affidavit of C. Wallace. Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiffs for $3,500 for money advanced to him by Wallace on behalf of the Plaintiffs at his request. The Defendant was Master of the "Barque Philippine" which was about to depart from Sooke to Shanghai and the Plaintiffs requested that he be apprehended.
File consists of 1 document: Affidavit of Michell and Bishop. The Plaintiff and Defendant had entered into a co-partnership in retail business of general merchandise in Sooke. The Plaintiff claimed that he had submitted various amounts of money to the Defendant for the purposes of the partnership to about $1,100. The Plaintiff went down to the store and discovered that the goods of the partnership were gone and had been taken to the auction house. The Defendant refused to present a detailed statement of account of the affairs of the said co-partnership to the Plaintiff.
File consists of 6 documents: Affidavit of J.H. Starr; Plea-Denial of Plaintiff; Jury List; Abstract of Trial; Summary of Proceedings; Notice of Trial. McCann is indebted to Starr in the sum of 84 pounds, one shilling and 8 pence for money paid by the Plaintiff for the Defendant at the Defendant's request.
File consists of 2 documents: Writ of Summons; Petition of Appeal. Plaintiff was employed by the Defendants as a caulker in construction of the steam vessel "Caledonia". One day, the Plaintiff had to perform some work on the bottom of the ship and the Defendants were to secure the vessel so that the Plaintiff could work safely underneath the ship. The Defendants did not take such care in securing and supporting the vessel. The said vessel fell down on the Plaintiff, crushing and maiming him. The Plaintiff claims 504 pounds, 5 shillings, 5 pence sterling.
File consists of 3 documents: Praecipe; Statement of the Solicitor for the Defendant; Affidavit of Service. Statement of Defendant Anderson states that the Writ of Summons in the above named cause is "bad in substance' and does not state facts on grounds sufficient to constitute a course of action.
File consists of 5 documents: (2) Affidavit of T. Trounce; Notice of Motion; Order; Award. Regarding an agreement made between the two parties over the personal estate of one A. Kaindler for which the defendant is the administrator.
File consists of 7 documents: Petition of an Infant; Replication of Notice to Join Cause; (2) Affidavit of H.P. Crease; Bill of Complaint; Defendant's Appearance; Plea. Kittson appears to be attempting to sell a "certain freehold property" of the Plaintiffs for $1,495 U.S. dollars to which the Plaintiff has not agreed to. The Defendant claims that he has been wrongfully indicted and that he was an "infant" under the age of 21 years a the time of the alleged offense.
File consists of 5 documents: Bill of Costs; Notice of Motion; (2) Bill of Complaint; Subpoena. Plaintiff was captain of the "Red River" and expended as Master of the said ship large sums of money for necessary disbursements and expenses for the ship to operate on a voyage from Hong Kong to Victoria. The Plaintiff claims a balance on that account and for wages owed to him as Captain, the sum of 187 pounds, 12 shillings. The ship is now under the command of the Defendant.
File consists of six documents: (2) Writ of Summons; Judgment; Affidavit of Johnson; Bill of Costs; Affidavit of Service. the Plaintiff claims $54.85 for debt and $12.50 for costs as the balance due on unpaid accounts
