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sadly mistaken. In Jany 68 finding he was determined not to pay me by his endeavoring to make a sham sale of certain personal property which by the laws of the state was bound for the rent I proceeded by way of a warrant to collect and ere I obtained Judgment your interference by addressing a letter to the Office Bruce King stoped proceedings. 

You were informed wrongfully (your informant no doubt knowing it to be faulse [[false]] at the time) that the said Officer had a Judgment of Execution when the fact is there had never been even a trial between us.  I should have proceeded to trial & Judgment but Sam Larkins promised faithfully to pay me this spring if I would stop