State of New York [Order to issue a commission to A.B. Olin; defendant's interrogatories; plaintiff's cross-interrogatories]

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GLC00720.06
GLC#
GLC00720.06-View header record
Type
Documents
Date
March 15, 1865
Author/Creator
State of New York
Title
[Order to issue a commission to A.B. Olin; defendant's interrogatories; plaintiff's cross-interrogatories]
Pagination
6 p. : docket ; Height: 33 cm, Width: 25 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Stamped as pages 102-108. Pages 102-103 comprise the New York State Supreme Court order to issue a commission to A.B. Olin to examine Edwin M. Stanton. Noted, and signed, as "A copy" by John Wood, clerk, on page 103. A 18 March 1865 note written vertically along the left margin, signed by plaintiff's attorney William Wickham, acknowledges the copy as valid. Pages 104-105 comprise the five interrogatories to be administered to Stanton. Signed, possibly clerically, by Vail & Sedgwick as attorneys for Murray, and, in another hand, by Miller & [Zut?]hill as attorneys for Perkins. Pages 106-107, comprising the five cross-interrogatories, is an autograph document signed by William Wickham, plaintiff's (Benjamin's) attorney. The bottom includes a note written by (or clerically for) Miller & [Zut?]hill consenting to the cross-interrogatories. This is followed by signatures for all three sets of attorneys: Wickham, Vail & Sedgwick, and Miller & [Zut?]hill. Page 108 is docketing, which identifies this as "Supreme Court /John Benjamin /agst / Robert Murray / & Jacob H. Perkins / Commission / Vail & Sedgwick / Deft Murrays Attys /98 Broadway / New York." A second docket states "Filed April 10th 1865". Immediately below this, someone has written "(Lee surrendered yesterday)".

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