May 2, 1844
Nauvoo, Illinois
Joseph Smith could not collect his July 2, 1843, debt from Wilson Law, as Law tried to offset claims Joseph had already paid, leaving Joseph "no remedy but the glorious uncertainty of the law."
Sources:
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 6:350
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters, Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch,
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