Documents relating to a court case regarding a contested election for delegates from Shelby County, Alabama, to the Alabama Secession Convention.
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Identifier
RSG00248_f10_Q0000134968_Q0000134971
Title
Documents relating to a court case regarding a contested election for delegates from Shelby County, Alabama, to the Alabama Secession Convention.
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Type
Text
Creator
Parnus, L.E.
Date
1861 January 19
Description
A list of seven written interrogatories to be given to J T Leeper, Richd H Brasher, Wilie H Pope, & Willis M Pledger, and their answers to be read in court as evidence. No answers are written, only questions.
Format
legal documents; lists
Place
Shelby County (Ala.)
Publisher
Alabama Department of Archives and History. (electronic version)
Contributor
Ava Gibbs
transcription
John R. Keenan & John F. W. Welch Contestants [vs?] John M. MClannahan & George D. Shortridge siting members of the Convention of the People in the State of Alabama
In the matter of the Contest before the Convention of Ala.
Interrogatories to be propounded to J. T. Leeper Richd. H. Broshin, Wilie H. Pope & Willis M. Pledger, who are resi= =dents of the County of Shelby Ala. which with their answers thereto will be read in evidence in the trial of the above contest, in the part of contestants -
Intgy. 1st Do you know the parties to this contest? What office did you hold on the 24th Decer 1860? How long had you held it? What office did John M. McClanah =an hold on that day & how long had he held it?
Intgy. 2d Please state whether any election was held in Shelby Co. ala. on the said 24th decer. 1860. Was any notice of that election given? If ^you please attach it (or Copy thereof) to your answer to this interrogatory & state how long &
in what manner it was given?
Inty. 3d Do you know anything about the counting out of the votes which were given at that election on Saturday next thereafter? If yes please state what you know in relation thereto? State how & where & when & in whose presence it was done? State how you came to act in that behalf. Attach a statement in tabular form of the result to your answer to this inter= =rogatory?
Inty 4" State whether ^any votes given at precinct No 11 were present on that day? When did you first see & where & under what circumstances, the vote from that pricinct?
Intgy 5" Please attach a true statement of the vote & return to your answer to this inter= =rogatory given at precinct No 11. Have you done so? Please attach a true copy of the return vote & the return as made in its exact words & figures? Have you done so?
Intgy. 6" Please state any other fact or circumstance in answer to this question within your knowledge not already stated which will benefit the Contestants -
Intgy. 7" To Wilie H. Pope - Please state whether a bond as secure= =ty for [corts?], was filed in your office, by any one, in relation to this contest? Also state if a notice of the grounds of the Contest was filed in your office? If you please attach a transcript of each paper certified under the seal of your office, to your answer to this question & state whether said trans= script contains a true copy of said bond & notice.
L. E. Parnus Atty for Contestants
To John M MClanaham & George D. Shortridge - Take notice that five days after the [?] of this notice & the a copy of the foregoing interrogations on you, a commission will issue on from the office of the Clerk of the cir= cuit court of Shelby County ala to Samuel Leeper and N. B. Mardis, who are residents of Shelby Co. ala. as commissioners for either of them
to take the depositions or answers of these witnesses to the foregoing interrogations - you can cross examine if you think proper Jany 19. 1861-
[?] E. Parsons atty for Contestants
In the matter of the Contest before the Convention of Ala.
Interrogatories to be propounded to J. T. Leeper Richd. H. Broshin, Wilie H. Pope & Willis M. Pledger, who are resi= =dents of the County of Shelby Ala. which with their answers thereto will be read in evidence in the trial of the above contest, in the part of contestants -
Intgy. 1st Do you know the parties to this contest? What office did you hold on the 24th Decer 1860? How long had you held it? What office did John M. McClanah =an hold on that day & how long had he held it?
Intgy. 2d Please state whether any election was held in Shelby Co. ala. on the said 24th decer. 1860. Was any notice of that election given? If ^you please attach it (or Copy thereof) to your answer to this interrogatory & state how long &
in what manner it was given?
Inty. 3d Do you know anything about the counting out of the votes which were given at that election on Saturday next thereafter? If yes please state what you know in relation thereto? State how & where & when & in whose presence it was done? State how you came to act in that behalf. Attach a statement in tabular form of the result to your answer to this inter= =rogatory?
Inty 4" State whether ^any votes given at precinct No 11 were present on that day? When did you first see & where & under what circumstances, the vote from that pricinct?
Intgy 5" Please attach a true statement of the vote & return to your answer to this inter= =rogatory given at precinct No 11. Have you done so? Please attach a true copy of the return vote & the return as made in its exact words & figures? Have you done so?
Intgy. 6" Please state any other fact or circumstance in answer to this question within your knowledge not already stated which will benefit the Contestants -
Intgy. 7" To Wilie H. Pope - Please state whether a bond as secure= =ty for [corts?], was filed in your office, by any one, in relation to this contest? Also state if a notice of the grounds of the Contest was filed in your office? If you please attach a transcript of each paper certified under the seal of your office, to your answer to this question & state whether said trans= script contains a true copy of said bond & notice.
L. E. Parnus Atty for Contestants
To John M MClanaham & George D. Shortridge - Take notice that five days after the [?] of this notice & the a copy of the foregoing interrogations on you, a commission will issue on from the office of the Clerk of the cir= cuit court of Shelby County ala to Samuel Leeper and N. B. Mardis, who are residents of Shelby Co. ala. as commissioners for either of them
to take the depositions or answers of these witnesses to the foregoing interrogations - you can cross examine if you think proper Jany 19. 1861-
[?] E. Parsons atty for Contestants
Subject
Brasher, Richard H.;
Kenan, John R.;
Leeper, James T.;
Leeper, Samuel;
Mardis, Napoleon Bonaparte;
McClanahan, John M.;
Moore, A. B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873;
Pledger, Willis M.;
Parsons, Lewis E. (Lewis Eliphalet), 1817-1895;
Pope, Wilie H.;
Shortridge, George David, 1814-1870;
Welch, John F. M.;
Alabama. Constitutional Convention (1861);
Governors--Alabama;
Alabama--Politics and government--To 1865;
Elections--Alabama;
Secession--Alabama;
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Shelby County (Ala.)
Kenan, John R.;
Leeper, James T.;
Leeper, Samuel;
Mardis, Napoleon Bonaparte;
McClanahan, John M.;
Moore, A. B. (Andrew Barry), 1807-1873;
Pledger, Willis M.;
Parsons, Lewis E. (Lewis Eliphalet), 1817-1895;
Pope, Wilie H.;
Shortridge, George David, 1814-1870;
Welch, John F. M.;
Alabama. Constitutional Convention (1861);
Governors--Alabama;
Alabama--Politics and government--To 1865;
Elections--Alabama;
Secession--Alabama;
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865;
Shelby County (Ala.)