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OFFICE SUPT. REFUGEES, FREEDMEN & ABANDONED LANDS,
SUB-DISTRICT HUNTSVILLE,
Huntsville, Alab., Oct. 12 1865

J. J. Giers
vs. 
J. T. Groch
Decision

1st. This Court has jurisdiction in this case

2nd. Ordered that 1/3 of crop go to owner of land, Geirs, and as much of the crop as will be required to support until Christmas the colored people who made the crop and those depending upon them (the amount necessary to be determined by three (3) persons of whom one (1) shall be selected by Pltf., One (1) by Deft. and one (1) by the two first selected. The balance of said crop to go to Deft. Gooch.

W. Irving Midler
1st. Lieut. 88th. U.S.C.I.
Asst. Supt. & Solicitor
Sub Dist N. A.  

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