June 6, 1837

Geauga County, Ohio
Eaton v. Smith: Winthrop Eaton, by his attorneys Andrews & Foot, filed a writ of capias ad respondendum at the Geauga Court of Common Pleas. Sheriff Abel Kimball was to have Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery before the Court of Common Pleas to answer Eaton's plea of assumpsit; damages were $2,000.
Sources: 
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters, Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch, 
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