Greeting.

  You are hereby required, in the name of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, to make your appearance before Justices of the court of Common Pleas now holden at Cambridge within and for the County of Middlesex on Thursday the Twentieth day of January instant at 9 o’clock A.M. and from day to day until the Action herein named is heard by the court, to give evidence of what you know relating to an Action of Plea of Tort then and there to be heard and tried betwixt Leonard Spaulding Lots [?] Plaintiff and William O. Benjamin Defendant

  Hereof fail not, as you will answer your default under the pain and penalty in the law in that behalf made and provided. Dated at Cambridge the Eighteenth day of january in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four

L. Marett Justice of the Peace