The following Dearborn County, Indiana court notices were published in Indiana newspapers in 1825. Dearborn County suffered a courthouse fire on 6 March 1826 that destroyed all records. See Dearborn County Reconstructed Records for more details.
Indiana Palladium – 8 Apr 1825 – Page 3, Column 1
On Wednesday last, George Smith, a coloured man, was tried on an indictment for burning a barn, belonging to Col. Pike, of this place. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, as charged in the indictment, upon which the Court sentenced him to five years hard labour in the Jeffersonville penitentiary, and pay one hundred dollars fine with cost of prosecution. The statute provides that where a fine is inflicted on any criminal, he or she not having property out of which to make the money, that such criminal shall be detained in prison, after the time for which he or she may have been sentenced, at the rate of twenty-five cents per day until the fine and all costs are paid. This will extend the confinement of Smith to something like seven years.
Indiana Spectator – 29 Apr 1825 – Page 3, Column 4
Foreign Attachment.
William A. Clarke versus Thomas Ogan} On foreign attachment returnable April Term 1825.
NOW came the plaintiff, by George H. Dunn, his attorney, & the said Thomas Ogan altho thrice solemnly called and required to appear to answer to the attachment aforesaid, came not, but made default herein.—It is therefore ruled and ordered by the court that notice of the pendency of this suit of attachment be published three weeks successively, in the ‘Indiana Spectator,’ a newspaper published in Lawrenceburg, requiring the said Thomas Ogan to be and appear before the Judges of our Dearborn Circuit Court, at their Term of the first Monday in April 1826 file special bill and receive a declaration, or Judgement will then be entered against him by default, and the land so attached will be sold for the benefit of his creditors.
A copy from the record.
James Dill, Clk.
April 28, 1825.
Indiana Spectator – 17 Jun 1825 – Page 3, Column 3
Dearborn Circuit Court.
APRIL TERM, 1825.
Susan Loyd vs. Charles W. Loyd} On Bill for Divorce.
NOW came the said Susan Loyd by Caswell, her Attorney, and filed her Bill praying a divorce from her husband Charles W. Loyd, for reasons in the said bill set forth,–and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the said Charles W. Loyd is not a resident of this state,–It is therefore ruled and ordered that notice of complaint be published four weeks successfully in the “Indiana Spectator,” a newspaper printed in Lawrenceburg, requiring the said defendant to be and appear before the Judges of the said Dearborn Circuit Court, at their term on the first Monday in October next—then and there to answer to the bill of complaint aforesaid; or the same will then be heard in his absence.
A copy from the record.
James Dill, Clk.
June 6, 1825.
Indiana Palladium – 14 Oct 1825 – Page 3, Column 3
Dearborn Circuit Court.
October Term, 1825.
Lodwick Cook vs. Mary Cook} On Libel, or bill for Divorce.
Now came Lodwick Cook, by St. Clair, his Attorney, and made it manifest to the Court, that Mary Cook, the defendant aforesaid is not a resident of this state. It is therefore ruled and ordered that notice of the pendency of the aforesaid bill or libel for divorce, be published for four weeks successively, in the Indiana Palladium, a public newspaper, printed in Lawrenceburgh, Dearborn county, requiring the said Mary Cook to be and appear before the Judges of Dearborn Circuit Court, in Chancery, sitting on the first day of their next Term, to be holden at Lawrenceburgh, in and for said county, on the first Monday in April next, then and there to answer to the bill or libel aforesaid, or the same will then be heard in her absence.
JAMES DILL, Clk.
Oct. 13, 1825.