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Saunders v. Dixon, Nauvoo, IL, Justice of the Peace Court, circa 4 February 1844
Subpoena, 4 Feb. 1844 [Saunders v. Dixon]. The Nauvoo city charter authorized JS as mayor to serve as a justice of the peace. Illinois law limited the jurisdiction of justices of the peace to disputed debts under $100. Justices of the peace also had jurisdiction “in all actions of trespass on personal property, and in all actions of trover and conversion,” when damages claimed did not exceed $20. (Act to Incorporate the City of Nauvoo, 16 Dec. 1840; An Act concerning Justices of the Peace and Constables [3 Feb. 1827], Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois [1834–1837], p. 402, sec. 1; An Act Supplemental to the Act Entitled “An Act concerning Justices of the Peace and Constables” [12 Feb. 1827], Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois [1834–1837], p. 414.)
The Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois: Containing All the Laws . . . Passed by the Ninth General Assembly, at Their First Session, Commencing December 1, 1834, and Ending February 13, 1835; and at Their Second Session, Commencing December 7, 1835, and Ending January 18, 1836; and Those Passed by the Tenth General Assembly, at Their Session Commencing December 5, 1836, and Ending March 6, 1837; and at Their Special Session, Commencing July 10, and Ending July 22, 1837. . . . Compiled by Jonathan Young Scammon. Chicago: Stephen F. Gale, 1839.
Subpoena, 4 Feb. 1844 [Saunders v. Dixon]. Damage to the manuscript partially obscures the date when the witnesses were ordered to appear before JS. It may be either 10 or 20 February 1844. According to JS’s journal, he “held court” on 10 February for State of Illinois v. Withers for assault, although there is no mention of Saunders v. Dixon in that entry. There is no indication in the journal or elsewhere of any trials on 20 February. (JS, Journal, 10 Feb. 1844.)
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