STATE OF ILLINOIS. SUPREME COURT. THIRD GRAND DIVISION, APRIL TERM, A.D. 1866. MADISON Y. JOHNSON, VS. J. RUSSEL JONES, JOHN C. HAWKINS, OLIVER P. HORKINS, ELIHU B. WASHBURNE AND BRADNER SMITH. APPEAL FROM JO DAVIESS COUNTY. ABSTRACT, BRIEF. ARGUMENT OF PLAINTIFF WITH OPINION AND JUDGMENT OF COURT.
Dubuque: Herald Steam Printing House, 1869. 74pp. Disbound, some light pencil underlining, else Very Good. Johnson, a Galena Copperhead, had been imprisoned for several months in 1862 without trial or charges. Johnson explains the reason: "We believed that a little conciliation and statesmanship, might have averted the calamity, and we..... More