Case Name: Genl. Miller's Affidavit vs Vidal
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1818
Citations: 3 Blume Sup. Ct. Trans. 524
Docket Number: 
Parties: Genl. Miller's Affidavit vs Vidal
Judges: 
Reporter: Transactions of the Supreme Court of the territory of Michigan
Volume: 3
Pages: 524–525

Head Matter:
Genl. Miller's Affidavit vs Vidal

Opinion:
Territory of Michigan DISTRICT OF DETROIT
TO WIT
Be it remember'd that on this sixteenth day of September A D one thousand eight hundred fifteen, Personally appeared before me George McDou-gall, a Justice of the peace for the District of Detroit aforesaid, Brigadier Gen1 James Miller, who being solemnly sworn deposeth and saith, That in a conversation with Lieu* Vidal at James Mays House in the City of Detroit on the evening he was brought to Detroit a prisoner about the fifth Instant, He the said Lieu* Vidal acknowledged that he had taken a Man, he called a Deserter, on the American shore above this place, put him on board his Boat and sent him on board the British vessell laying off from whence he took him James Miller
Sworn & subscribed before me at Detroit the day & year first above written
Geo. McDougall
Justice of the Peace D D T M
[In the handwriting of George McDougall]