Holmes v. Walton: Case Files

Supreme Court Case Files | Monmouth County Archives

NOTE: Ellipses in these transcriptions indicate either missing words or words that could not be made out by this transcriber. Square brackets indicate uncertain readings. The transcription shows language struck through in the original, but does not attempt to show the interlineal or marginal position of inserted language. -P.Ax.

New Jersey Supreme Court Case Files, at New Jersey State Archives

Folder 18354

Reasons &c, filed Nov. 1779. Three pages, containing six numbered paragraphs.
Additional Reasons, filed Nov. 1779. One page, containing four paragraphs.
Reasons in Arrest of the judgment in the new trial. Two pages, containing nine re-numbered paragraphs.

Folder 44928

Inferior Court of Common Pleas, Monmouth County, Certification to Supreme Court, with Apr.25, 1781 writ to Sheriff. On separate page: excerpts from minutes of court, July 25, 1781 and Oct. 1781.
State of Facts sur Trial &c &c. Eleven pages, with testimony of witnesses arranged by Roman numerals. Though undated, this is evidently a compilation of the testimony at the new trial, because it refers to the first one as "the former trial."
State of Facts, Affidavits, &c, returnable Sept. Term 1781. One page, containing introductory paragraph and four numbered paragraphs (paragraph 1 mostly missing). Final paragraph in different hand reporting verdict.
Writ of Certiorari, May 12, 1781
Certiorari and Return, Sept. 1, 1781, listing twelve jurors and seven witnesses, and recording verdict and judgment given at July 1781 trial.
fragment re Phebe Ketcham
fragment re John James
Affidavit of Andrew Bowne, on New Trial in Seizure, May 30, 1782
Affidavit of Elias Covenhoven, on New Trial, May 1782.
Additional Evidence taken before Commissioner Craig, Jan. 27, 1783. Five pages, consisting of two affidavits (one of four jurors; the other of Peter Smith, William Morrison, & Jonathan Forman).
Evidence of Andrew Bowne, in Seizure, taken Jan. 29, 1783.
Writ of Habeas Corpus, May 14, 1783

Documents at Monmouth County Archives

Capias Corpus for debt of £20,000, April 29, 1779 (Walton v. Holmes)
Capias Corpus for debt of £20,000, April 29, 1779 (Wikoff v. Holmes & Ketcham)
Plea for £20,000, January(?) 3, 1780 (Wikoff qui tam. v. Holmes & Ketcham)
Plea in Abatement by Elisha Walton, July 25, 1780 (against Wikoff's qui tam plea)
Capias for debt of £29,428:13:4½, April 25, 1781 (Walton v. Holmes & Ketcham)