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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.
Your Petitioner
to said court that he is justly
but is
your Petitioner states that in the fall of the year 1827 at
he might pass free as he pleased &
& that when
Five hundred dollars he said
Petitioner from Slavery - your Petitioner says that in the
fall of 1827 &
about four months & your Petitioner says that he
Osborn as aforesaid
of said
afterward in the year 1828 - your Petitioner
the brother of said
Petitioner says that he went to
Staid & Laboured there as aforesaid
& permission of Said
further says that after the year 1827 he paid said
consideration for Petitioners freedom & that he completed
the payment of this sum more than four years ago
yet Said
slavery & refuses to
Prays to be permitted to
Establish his freedom that counsel may be
to him & that such further orders may be made
in his behalf as his case requires & this
& he
pray &
This day personally appeared before me
and for said county
within named Petitioner & I read the said
Petition to said
on his oath says that the
petition stated are true
Petition for
leave to sue in
form a
order permitting to sue Book 6 - page 446
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.
complains of
the case for that heretofore
of January on the year of
& Twenty eight the said defendant
did make upon him said plaintiff & him said
plaintiff did then & there
treat & him said plaintiff did then & there imprison
& hath kept & detained said plaintiff in prison there
for a long span of time
aforesaid untill this time
cause
then & there did against the
State. And the plaintiff
time of the committing the said secured grievances
was & still is a free person & that said defendant
held & detained & still holds & detains him in slavery
wherefore said plaintiff says he is greatly injured
& hath sustained Damages to five hundred dollars
therefore he sues &c.
We command you to summon
before the Judge of our circuit court at the next term thereof to be held at
the city of
fourth Monday of July instant then and there to answer unto
of five hundred dollars and have you then there this writ
of
and that he may be permitted to sue as a poor person thereupon the court permit
the said
and Battery and false imprisonment be brought in the name of the said
it is ordered by the court that the said
the court when occasion may require it and that the said petitioner
shall not be taken or removed out of the Jurisdiction of this court or be
subject to any severity of treatment on account of his said application
for freedom
vs
This is a
declaration in the form
prescribed by Statute Trespass
& Damages $500 -
An order that made last
Term permitting said
Plff to sue as a
to Establish his freedom
& copy of said order
Served this writ by reading at the defendants usual
place of
a
with a free white member of his
family over the age of fifteen
whom I made
thereof on the