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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit Court historical records project.
The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
twenty one years to wit of the age of fourteen years, admitted
to the here as a poor person by
of
um of the state and county aforesaid of a plea of trespass and
false imprisonment for that the said defendant heretofore
to wit on the
dred and forty,
said plaintiff did make an assault: and her the said plaintiff
did then and there beat and evilly treat, and then
and there did imprison, keep, detain confine and hold
the said plaintiff in confinement and slavery: and still
continues to imprison the said plaintiff and to keep detain
and hold her in confinement, and has ever since then im
prisoned the said plaintiff and kept detained and
held her in confinement and slavery to wit at the
county aforesaid, contrary to the laws of the state
and against the will of said plaintiff. And the
aid plaintiff avers that she was, at the time of the
committing of the
that time, and has ever since then continued to be
and still
then and there held, and has ever since continued
to hold, and still holds her the said
plaintiff in slavery to wit at the county afore-
said - and then and there did other wrongs to the
said plaintiff against the peace government &
dignity of the state and contrary to the form of
the statute in such case made & provided. To the
damage of the said plaintiff in the sum of
one thousand dollars and therefore she brings
friend
imprisonment -
vs
Damages $1000
Let a summons issue
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We command you to
found in your County that he be and appear
before the judge of our
held at the
of
of a plea
to the damage of said plaintiff
dollars: And have you then there this writ.
I acknowledge myself bound for all costs that may accrue in the above cause.
Witness my hand and seal, at
L.S.
p 326
vs
Summons
Trespass & false imprisonment
Damages -
Executed this writ in the
the
he refused to hear
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Know all were by these presents that we
John
the
hundred fifty dollars for the payment whereof
we
with our seals and dated this
August eighteen
hundred forty.
The condition of this recognizance is such
that whereas
petition in the
procured an order to sue said
freedom: Now if the said
the petitioner, shall during the
suit have resonable liberty of attending her
counsel and the Court and shall not be
removed out of the judiction ofsaid court,
and shall not be subjected to any seventy on
account of her application for freedom; then
this obligation shall be
remain in force.
Filed
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And the defendant
by his attorney
wrong
is not
ses wherewith he is charged in
ner and
tion set forth
puts himself upon the county &.c.
And for further plea he
the said plaintiff was at the
the slave of him the defendant & this he is
ready to
vs.
pleas
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Replication
And the said plaintiff as to
the first plea of the said de
fendant by him
hath put himself upon the Country doth the like
And as
the plaintiff says that the by reason of any
thing in
barred from having and maintaining
action thereof against said defendant, because
She says that
ting of the
tioned, plaintiff
and not
plea is alleged, and this the said plaintiff
prays may be enquired of by the country.
next
vs
Replication