Alamo, Friday 7th day of January A.D. 1876
P. C. PIPKINS
~VS~
Contest of Guardianship
WILLIAM STAMPS
In this Cause It Is ordered Adjudged and decreed that the m—? be dismissed and the Plaintiffs and defendant each pay the cost accrude on their own account if any
To the Worshipful County Court of Crockett County Petitioner would respectfully represent unto your worships that FRANCIS ANDREW HARRELL is a minor under twenty one years of age that his mother died while he was yet an infant that his Father departed this life in the fall of 1875 that the said FRANK is entitled to property as a legatee of his Grand Farther PIPKINS Estate now in the hands of P. P. PIPKINS Administrator of said Estate and possably in the hands of others he therefore ask that a Guardian be by your worshipful Court appointed with usual authority of guardian that his request is that WILLIAM STAMPS of Crockett County Tennessee be appointed said Guardian
MAHON & GOODLOW
for FRANCIS A. HARRELL
Thereupon the said WILLIAM STAMPS came into Court and entered into Bond in the sum of one thousand dollars with THOMAS HARRELL and BAKER HARRELL as his securities who severally acknowledged said Bond in open Court which was approved by the Court and the said WILLIAM STAMPS was duly Qualified as the law directs.
Transcribed and contributed by Natalie Huntley.