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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
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To
tiffs in the above causes.
You will please take notice, that the said
several plaintiffs, by their agent or attorney, will
attend at the dwelling house of
the county of
on Saturday the
tween the hours of 10 Oclock A.M. and six Oclock
P.M. of that day, and then of there take the depo
sitions of witnesses, to be read in evidence on
the trial of the above mentioned causes, on the
part of the plaintiffs, when & where you and
the said plaintiffs will attend & cross exam
ine, if you think fit.
vs
Notice to take
depositions at
house of
Saturday
Received copy of
within
In the cases in which
cerned I acknowledge
this to be a sufficient
service of notice
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Winetta a free girl of color held in slavery and
who is permitted by the court to sue as a poor person
by
her attornies
as counsel by the said court complains of
John Butter and
the said defendants heretofore to writ on the
of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
and twenty five
the body of the said Winetta & then & there beat
and ill treated her the said Winetta and then and
there
and detained her in
detain her in prison against the will of the
Winetta and contrary to the
wrongs to the said Winetta then & there did against the
of the state.
damage to the amount of five hundred dollars &
at this place of
day reading it to him
On
reading it to him
The other defendants to writ
O. Wingfield and
John Butter &
Mitchell Hatton and Ann his wife
are not to be found in my
county
vs
near
To the Clark
This is an
assault and battery and
false imprisonment
Issue a summons
for defendants
Bates & McGirk
Attys P. Q.
We command you to
and
term
fourth Monday of July and then and there to
who is
person of a plea of trespass to the damage of said plaintiff of five hundred dollars
and have you then there this writ.
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Executed this writ on
the City of
the
Defendants named in this writ are not to be found in my County, neither
have they a Place of
$9.50
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vs.
and others
The within
1825
Arch. Gamble Clerk
Sheriff Brock's fee $2.00
with
Judge of our
there to
to
to the damage of said plaintiff of five hundred dollars and have
there
Executed the
beth his wife
hearing at Newport in the
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And the said
and defends the wrong and injury when
says that the said Winetta ought not to have
or maintain her aforesaid action thereof against
him because he says that the said Winetta
is the slave of him the said
he is ready to verify. wherefore he prays
judgment to
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And the said
as to the said plea of the
said several
part of his plea mentioned, and
attempted to be
the said
by the said
ought not to be
and maintaining her
because the saith, that she is not the
slave of him him the said
but is a
ready to verify, wherefore the said
by her
committing of the said several
vs
Eph Musick &
others
Replication
Bates &
for
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And the said
Winetta comes and says that by
son of any thing by the said
in his plea above
not to be barred from having her a
foresaid action thereof against him
because she says that she is not
the slave of
manner and form as the said
in his plea
she prays
by the country.
vs
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, he be and appear in proper person before the Judge of our circuit Court
on the
say in a certain matter of controversy, now pending in our said court, wherein
plaintiff, and
defendant, on the part of
vs
informed and believe it true, that he has departed this life
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We command you to attach
if
with
unto the
mitted, in not attending as a witness in a case of
plaintiff, and
defendant, on the part of the
after being legally summoned by the sheriff of the said
county, and have you then thre this writ.
Executed
on the
& have his body
in Court
Fees $100
vs
Eh
for
Attachment
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We command you to attach
if he may be found within your bailiwick, and bring
with
mitted, in not attending as a witness in a case of
plaintiff, and
defendant, on the part of the
Defendt. after being legally summoned by the sheriff of the said
county, and, have you then there this writ.
Executed
D Applegate
not
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, they
on the
plaintiff, and
defendant, on the part of the
vs
for
Executed
March
it to
On
on
leaving
residence with his
over the age of 15
years
An
March
to him in