Monday May the 11th 1857

Richard H. Parker }  Bernard
       vs         }    assumpsit
Asa Clark Senr    } Dewson
                                And now on this day came
the parties by their respective attorneys and the defendant
saying nothing in bar or preclusion of the plaintiffs said
action hereof against him, It is ordered by the Court
that the said plaintiff do have his Judgment against
the said defendant by default for want of plea, and that
the Clerk do assess the damages, Whereof the Clerk having
assessed the damages at ---------------------------------------
Dollars and ------------------------------cents, It is further
ordered considered and adjudged by the Court that the
plaintiff do have and recover of and from the said
defendant the said sum  ---------------------------Dollars
and -----------------------cents for his damages together
with his cost in this behalf expended Taxed at -------------
Dollars and -----------cents and the defendant in Mercy &c

Written in left margin:
Richard H. Parker
This is a double entry

Lemuel Wilson     }    Bradford & McLin
      vs          } assumpsit
Vincent Moore     }
       And now on this day came the plaintiff by
his attorney and it appearing from the record in this
cause that Judgement by default was rendered against
the defendant in favor of the plaintiff at the last
term of this court with Writ of Inquiry returnable to
this present Term of said Court Thereupon came a
Jury to wit.
1  Jeremiah Gamage             7  John R. Cason
2  John E. Thompson            8  Franklin Cox
3  Allen W. Hinson             9  Wiley S. Bennett
4  Thos C. Colson   10 John A. Dean
5  R.E. Johnson                11 Hardy Howard
6  Hardy Havard                12 John H. Malphurs
Who being duly sworn well and truly to assess the
damages according to the law and evidence after
hearing the Testimony, argument of Counsel and Charge
of the Court retired to consider of their Verdict, and afterward
to wit on the same day said Jury returned into Court and
rendered the following Verdict, "We the Jury assess the
damages against the defendant in favor of the plaintiff
at and for the sum of Fifty one Dollars and fifty cents