Case Name: Elijah Brush vs William, M. G. Bucklen
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1809-08-12
Citations: 2 Blume Sup. Ct. Trans. 280
Docket Number: 
Parties: Elijah Brush vs William, M. G. Bucklen
Judges: 
Reporter: Transactions of the Supreme Court of the territory of Michigan
Volume: 2
Pages: 280–281

Head Matter:
In the district Court
12. august
RTBLe on the third monday in august 1809.
Elijah Brush vs William, M. G. Bucklen

Opinion:
Territory of Michigan district of hurón & Detroit
To the Marshall of the district of Huron & Detroit Greeting:
In the name of the district of Huron & Detroit, you are hereby commanded to take the body of William M. G. Bucklen, if to be found within your precint, and him Safely Keep so that you have him to appear before our district court to be holden at Detroit on the third monday of August instant then & there to answer Elijah Brush In an action of trespass on the case to the damage of the said plaintiff, as he says, forty nine dollars & fifty cents to Recover which, with just costs, he brings this suit. Thereof fail not, but of this writ with your proceedings therein, make due return. Dated at Detroit the twelfth day of august one thousand eight hundred nine.
Peter Audrain clerk D. C.
Note: The amount first written was "fifty dollars."]