County Clerk's Office
Lavaca Co., Texas
Page Number 63

To the Hon B. B. Walker Chief Justice of the County Court

The petition of Catherine Ann Arnold her next friend Joel P. Tate comes humbly complaining and showing unto your Honor that her father J. B. Arnold a citizen of said county who is her Natural Guardian has outraged her feelings and is for divers causes and reasons which will be shown to your Honor at the proper time incompetent and unfit for the duties of her Guardian. She further represents that she is over the age of 14 years and is desirous of choosing a Guardian to protect her subject to the approval of your Honor wherefore the prayers that your Honor will permit her to choose a Guardian subject to your Honor's approval and that said J. B. Arnold be cited to show cause if any he can why her prayers may not be granted. and of the hearing and final determination for such other special and general relief in the promises as to your Honor may serve meet and just the causes being considered and as in duty bound she will ever pray. as

C. A. Arnold by her next friend J. P. Tate

County Clerk's Office
Lavaca Co., Texas
Page Number 63
Sept. 7, 1858

The State of Texas
Lavaca County

To the Sheriff of Lavaca County
Greetings

You are hereby commanded to summons J. B. Arnold to be and appear before the Hon. Judge of the County Court at the next regular term of said court to be holden in the court house in the town of Halletsville on the last Monday in September AD 1858 to show cause if any he can why the prayers of C. A. Arnold by her next friend J. T. Tate in her petition should not be granted. herein fail not and have you there this citation showing thereof how you have executed the same.
Given under my hand and Seal of Office at Office in the Town of Halletsville this 7th day of September 1858.
Josiah Dowling Clerk by J. J. Foster Dep