The following Dearborn County, Indiana court notices were published in Indiana newspapers in 1821. Dearborn County suffered a courthouse fire on 6 March 1826 that destroyed all records. See Dearborn County Reconstructed Records for more details.
Lawrenceburg Indiana Oracle – 16 Jun 1821 – Page 3, Column 2
At the present term of the Dearborn Circuit Court, two men were convicted of passing, of attempting to pass, counterfeit money. This county has been so long infested by a gang of villains who are continually passing counterfeit money, that we have no doubt the success of this first attempt to bring the offenders to justice and to punish them as the law requires, will be highly pleasing to the people. The public has suffered too much from them, to permit this business to be carried on any longer with impunity and we hope every man will exert himself to break it up entirely.
Lawrenceburg Indiana Oracle – 3 Nov 1821 – Page 3, Column 4
Insolvent Notice.
Henry Higgins of Dearborn county, having filed his petition to the Dearborn Circuit court, praying the benefit of the several acts of the general assembly of the state of Indiana, made for the relief of insolvent debtors, together with a Schedule of his property, attested as the said laws require, and having in all other respects complied with the provisions of the said laws, notice is therefore hereby given to all whom it may concern, that the court will act on said petition at their next term.
JAMES DILL, Clerk.
November 1, 1821.
Lawrenceburg Indiana Oracle – 22 Dec 1821 – Page 3, Column 4
Domestic Attachment.
STATE OF INDIANA, DEARBORN COUNTY} Sct.
Whereas two several writs of Domestic Attachment, issued from the office of the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid, on the 10th day of November last, against the goods and chattels, rights, credits, monies and effects of Edward Riggs, (late a resident of said county) an absconding debtor, at suit of William Root, upon two several notes of hand, due and payable to him by the said Edward Riggs; one for the sum of forty dollars and twenty five cents, due upon the 15th day of June, 1821; the other for the sum of twenty dollars, due on the 5th day of August, 1821; upon which writs the Constable made return, I have attached in the hands of Frederick Utz and Andrew Armstrong, a quantity of manufactured Tobacco, supposed of the value of 80 dollars;–Notice is therefore hereby given to the said Edward Riggs, that he be and appear before me John Porter, a Justice of the Peace, at my office, either by himself, by agent or attorney, on the 2d day of February, 1822, at 10 o’clock on said day, to plead to the said suit, otherwise judgment will be entered by default, execution issued, and the property so taken, will be sold at public sale.
JOHN PORTER, J. P.
December 10, 1821.
Lawrenceburg Indiana Oracle – 22 Dec 1821 – Page 4, Column 1
Insolvent Notice.
Thomas Dill of Dearborn county having filed his petition to the Dearborn circuit court, praying the benefit of the several acts of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, made for the relief of Insolvent Debtors, together with a schedule of his property, attested as the said laws require; and having in all other respects complied with the provisions of the said laws, notice is therefore hereby given, to all whom it may concern, that the Court will act on said petition at their next term.
JAMES DILL, Clk.
November 16th, 1821.
Lawrenceburg Indiana Oracle – 22 Dec 1821 – Page 4, Column 3
DEARBORN CIRCUIT COURT.
September Term, 1821.
Jane Shelby versus David Shelby} On petition for divorce.
Now came the complainant, Jane Shelby, by Test her attorney; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that David Shelby, the defendant aforesaid, is not an inhabitant of this state—It is therefore ordered and directed that notice of the pending of the aforesaid bill of complaint be published for four weeks successively, in the Oracle—and that the defendant be and appear on the first day of the next Term of the Dearborn Circuit Court, to answer the said complaint, or the matters and things therein prayed for will be decreed against him in his absence.
JAMES DILL, Clerk.
6th December, 1821.
Lawrenceburg Indiana Oracle – 22 Dec 1821 – Page 4, Column 3
DEARBORN CIRCUIT COURT.
September Term, 1821.
Austin Montgomery and Samuel Scholfield, executors of the last will and testament of Stephen Smith, deceased, versus Marshall Smith, sole executor of the last will and testament of Cyrus N. Smith, deceased} On complaint in Chancery.
NOW came the complainants aforesaid, by Lane, their attorney, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that Marshall Smith, the defendant aforesaid, is not a resident of the State of Indiana—It is therefore ordered and directed, that notice of the filing of the aforesaid Bill of Complaint be published in the Oracle four times, as the law, in such case requires—and that the said Marshall Smith be and appear before the Judges of our said Dearborn Circuit Court, in Chancery sitting, on the first day of their next term, then and there to answer to the Bill of complaint aforesaid, or the same will be taken as confessed, and the matters and things therein prayed for will be decreed accordingly.
JAMES DILL, Clk. D. C. C.