COURT: Elizabeth Westfall vs. Robert Huff, 1804, Bullitt Co., KY
COURT: Harrison Joyce vs. Harrison Westfall, 1846, Bullitt Co., KY

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Submitted by:  Annette Rardin <abrardin@shasta.com>
Date: 28 May 2001
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Abstracted from original, loose documents folded into bundles (not the court-copied bound 
volumes). 

Bullitt Circuit Court, KY, Court of Quarter Sessions, Elizabeth Westfall vs. Robert Huff, 
March 1804, Bundle #134.  Contains only the summons and on its reverse the court 
information.  Elizabeth Westfall filed a "plea of Trespass in the case Damage one thousand 
Dollars."  The summons was issued 27 October 1802 in Bullitt County, ordering Robert Huff to 
appear before the Justices of the Court of Quarter Sessions on 1 March 1803. The matter was 
continued by the court until the February 1804 term, when it was "Dism'd for want of 
Pros'n."  In March 1804 "Off Dism'n conp't."

Bullitt Circuit Court, KY, Harrison Joyce vs. Harrison Westfall, April 1846, Bundle #345.  
Consists of  five papers.  On 27 February 1846 Harrison Joyce filed a "Plea of trespass 
victarmis," asking for $150 in damages.  Joyce claimed that Westfall in 184_ discharged a 
certain gun then and there loaded with gun powder and leaden balls and then and there with 
his Said gun Shot at and discharged the same against a certain Horse between 5 and Six Years 
old a bay coller, the property of and belonging to Said plff of great value to wit of the 
value of $65 . . . So greatly Shot, hurt and, wounded Said Horse, that by Reason thereof
the Said Horse being of the value afs'd afterwards, to wit, on the day and year afs'd died 
at the circuit afs'd . . . ."  Westfall answered the plea, claiming that he was not guilty 
of the charge.  The following people were summoned to court to testify on behalf of Harrison
Westfall:  "John Harshfield (Blacksmith), Christian Harshfield, Martin Harshfield, Henry 
Harshfield, Wm. Shoptaw, Jesse Chappell & Ballard F. Chappell."  The following people were 
summoned to court to testify on behalf of Harrison Joyce:  "John S. Shoptaugh, Wm. Welch, 
Henry J. Felker, Wm. Joyce."    The jury found for the plaintiff in the sum of $65, Wm. Polk 
being the foreman of the jury.