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To the Supreme Court of British Columbia

The fourteenth day of November A.D. 1878

The Plaintiff <person's name> by Robert Edwin Jackson their Attorney sues the defendant John Maguire for that the defendant converted to his own use and wrongfully deprived the Plaintiff of the use and possession of the Plaintiff's goods that is to say one piece of flannel and one piece of cloth one piece of [Damask?] one piece of {?} plaid and one piece of [?] cloth and the Plaintiff further sues the defendant for that the defendant broke and entered the dwelling house belonging to the Plaintiff and continued and stayed therein for the space of one day making great noise and disturbance therein and greatly disturbed and disquieted the Plaintiff in the possession and the enjoyment of the said dwelling house and then also with force and arms took and seized divers goods and chattels to wit one piece of flannel and one piece of cloth one piece of [Damask?] one piece of {?} plaid and one piece of [?] cloth then being in the said dwelling house and in certain part thereof then used as a shop by the Plaintiff in his trade and business of a merchant and which said goods and chattels then were part of the stock in trade of the Plaintiff in the way of his trade and business and of great value to wit five hundred dollars and converted and disposed thereof to his own use to wit under a false and unfounded claim that the defendant was then entitled to seize and take possession of the said goods to enforce payment of a certain license then alleged to the due from the Plaintiff to Her Majesty