English: Decision of the U.S. Superior Court for the Arkansas Territory in Bradley v. Trammel, reported by Samuel H. Hempstead in his Reports beginning at page 164.
Date
Source
Samuel H. Hempstead, ed. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the United States Superior Court for the Territory of Arkansas, etc. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1856), 164-172.
Author
U.S. Superior Court for the Arkansas Territory; Benjamin Johnson
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