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The task will be difficult and quite perplexing as Court will commence 1st October Very truly yr. friend Benj L Whelan for Jas E Griggs In the unjust case of Booker, Knight & Co. Bernard O'Donnell Claiming damages of Deft $1000.00 for hiring a colored boy whom he (Knight) had struck with his pistol and otherwise assaulted, (which case you remember) please have issued the order to strike it from the Docket The case was instituted by Walker and Pitman at the Circuit Court of Greene. Come up during Court awhile. I commences the last day of September B.S.W
Transcription Notes:
Deft - Defendant