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We command you
if he be found in Your County
that he be and appear
held at the
day
of
filed
I acknowledge myself bound for all costs that may accrue in the above cause.
Executed this writ in the
To
he refused to hear.
Summoned
Set for Freedom
and
tition herein filed
the
rily
her, and that she have redeemable liberty to attend her
and that she
court and that she be not
count of her application for freedom.
to declare & Mo. for security p 218 Rejoinder in demr, 18 p 255
With
recalled &.
costs, 18 p 266 Mo.
for
p 389.
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The Petition of
she with:- that she is now held in slavery by
one
Little in the city and
And in order to establish this right, she prays
to be allowed to
freedom in your Honorable court, and
for the following grounds, on which her
claim of freedom is founded, to wit
she was
ritory of
had been admitted into the union as a
free state, she was brought for
which Territory of
mitted
into the union, was thus admitted
as a slave state; and the bringing of your
petitioner from a free state to a Territory,
was when she was in
knowledge of her rights, and when she
had no one to protect her; and
thus brought into
wrongfully held as a slave, and is still so
held by one
of Fourth Street, in the city of
your petitioner
was
and she is not able to set forth any
particulars to sustain
be
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Personally came
before the
said,
duly sworn, after the petition had
,
and made oath that the
the particular
are
her knowledge and
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Witnesses for
1.
2.
3.
4.
5
6
all in St.
South
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Now comes the complainant by her
ing facts; that at the time that the order
of this court was made, allowing the com-
plainant to
freedom, she had been by the defendant
committed to the jail of St. Louis County,
on the official
had been
complainant for the order
after it was made,
her away
a
jurisdiction this court. Therefore she by her attorny, moves that an order
be made, that the said Little have
the said plaintiff within the
to attend her counsel and the court as occasion may require and that she be
not removed out of the jurisdiction of
this court,”; and that such order be by
this court
be any longer subject to any or further
security on account of her application
for freedom.
Motion in
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Motion for attachment for
Now comes the complainant in this case and
files her motion by attorny, and moves the
court to attach the defedant for contempt
of this court in in refusing
the lawful order of the court, and in this that
when he was required by said order to allow the
petitioner to be within the jurisdiction of the
Court to prosecute her suit for freedom, and
to have reasonable liberty to attend her
and the court, as occasion may require; and
that she be not removed from the jurisdiction
of the court, and that she be not
any
for freedom. He said Little did remove and covered her and it appearing that the said
order, she by her
court to attach the said Defendant. to show
cause why he has so
of court; and that such other proceedings,
may be had in the case as may be legal
suit and equitable in the premisis.
Motion to punish for
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who had been served with process in the above
entitled case
plaintiff to furnish additional security-
whose name
security is
possible.
241761
188291
53470
laration,
for cont.
Withdrawn
1848.
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You are hereby commanded, that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, you appear be-
fore our
testify, and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said Court,
wherein
witnesses for def
for Saturday next
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You are hereby commanded, that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, you appear be-
fore our
at the
testify, and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said Court, wherein
Executed
Witnesses for Saturday
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You are hereby commanded, that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, you appear be-
fore our
at the
testify, and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said Court,
wherein
Executed except
Hooper.
Subpoenae
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and
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of
-ment for that when
to
February in
Lord one thousand eight hundred
and forty-eight
defendant with force and arms
tiff, and then and there im-
=prisoned her, the said defend
ant and kept and delivered her
in prison
time to wit for the space, of
of the said plaintiff
plaintiff sworn that before and
at the
and false imprisonment by the
said defendant as aforesaid
was and now is a free person
and that the
then and now holds her in
slavery
of the said plaintiff five hund
=dred dollars
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and now comes the
of the
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the
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move the court for
the case of
present
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now comes
and the plaintiff in the case, and makes
plaint, by
For that, whenas the said
february, anno
forty eight
the state of
force hold and keep the said plaintiff and
camplainant,
keep her this plaintiff and complainant as
a slave where she, the
complainant is a free person of color; and
that the said defendant
date hereof and
free
to
for the recovery of her freedom, being now, as