Writ of diminution issued to the court of Washington County in the Mississippi Territory (later Alabama), regarding the case between Edwin Lewis and Peter Cartwright.

Lewis, the plaintiff, had complained about the outcome of the trial: "...suggesting to us that manifest Error had intervened in the record and process, and also in the giving of Judgment of the plea which was before you by our Writ between the said Edwin Lewis plaintiff and Peter Cartwright def...

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