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For this trial the said plaintiff heretofore and before the commencment
of this suit, within the county aforesaid on the day of 18
was seized and [p-?] as of his own right in (?) simple of a
certain close, Known and described as section Nineteen Township
Eighteen, Range Three East in the Tuscaloosa Land District, Alabama,
Lying and being situated in the county of St Clair aforesaid,
and the said plaintiff being so seized and [papeped?] of the
Close aforesaid, the said defendant affirmed to writ on the
day and year aforesaid, with force and arms broke and
entered the plaintiffs said close and trampled down the
(?), and injured and destroyed the timber growing
thereon and then and there [d-?] other injury to the plaintiffs
said close, and this suit is brought as well to recover damages
for the said [T-?] as to [any?] titles to said lands - and to
recover the [popepin ???] thereof wherefore the said plaintiffs hath
[perst-?] damage to the amount of Twenty Thousand dollars,
and hence this suit,

Samuel F. Rice & [M?]
Attorneys for plaintiff

And the defendant by attorney [c-?], defends H H (?) Plea says he is not
guilty

WB. Martin & AL Walker
Said in further please the defendant says that the ^no action accrued
to the said plaintiff within 1- years before the commencement of this suit, in short by consent.
A.L Walker & W.B Martin.

William Thweat
vs
William Johnson
Be it remembered that at the said of
in the trial of this cause to show within
himself read in evidence the following judge=
ment in favor of the plaintiff against Robert Lawson at the
November term 1830 of the circuit court for St. Clair County
in the words following