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 June 13, 1817

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 Michel Lacroix vs. Louis Tayon, Maurice Blondeau, and Bazile Proulx June 13, 1817 Lacroix, Michel Tayon, Louis Blondeau, Maurice Proulx, Bazile Injunction 57 Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit Stuart, Alexander Bent, Silas Garnier, J.V. Devore, William Carr, A.V. McGirk, M. TY deciphered most of vendor's unclear tags throughout entire document TY proofread and corrected transcription errors through entire document TY found no index of returns references through entire document CM added legal info to end GAL reviewed text-orientation rends Injunction Certificate of Execution

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 Injunction Garnier, J.V. Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit Certificate of Execution Thompson, J.W. Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit northern circuit territory of missouri The United States of America Louis Tayon Maurice Bondeau and Bazile Proulx their counselors attornies solicitors or agents. Greetings

Whereas it has been represented to our judges of our Superior Court of our Territory of Missouri in and for the northern Circuit sitting as a court of Chancery, on the part of Michel Lacroix complainant that he hath lateley exhibited his bill of complaint into our said court sitting as a court of chancery, against you the Said Louis Tayon, Maurice Blondeau and Bazil Proulx defendants to be relieved touching the matters therein contained, namely that sometime in the year eighteen hundred and fifteen he equipped and furnished to you the said Bazile Proulx an assortment of merchandise suitable for the Indian Trade, and was to receive payment therefore out of the process of sales. That you afterwards sold the said goods to Maurice Blondeau whose note you took therefore amounting to the sum of twelve thousand two hundred and forty three livres ten sols payable in the spring following - that the said Proulx before the said note became due placed the same into the hands of the said Louis Tayon for the mere purpose of collection and where the representation of to said Tayon to said Proulx , in order to enable him to collect the same that it was necessary that his name should be endorsed on the back thereof which was accordingly done that a regular endorsement was afterwards written by said Tayon or someone for him over the name of the said Proulx - That a suit was brought on said note against the said Maurice Blondeau in the circuit court of the county of St. Louis and a judgment thereon obtained against him for the sum of one thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars and twenty cents besides the costs of the suit - that the said Louis Tayon never paid said Proulx one cent thereof nor therefore and that he the said complainant is justly and equitably entitled to more than the whole amount of the same that both said Proulx and said Tayon are poor the latter of whom never had nor has he now property or means sufficient to purchase either a note or any other article of property and that unless he can join on the payment of the judgment aforesaid in the hands of Blondeau he knows of no property or means of getting the same either from Proulx or Tayon who well knowing the advantages he has at law against your orator is proceeding to collect the same by execution against said Blondeau or his bail. Therefore it was prayed that the conplainant might have an injunction to stay the proceedings at law until the hearing of this case. Then therefore in consideration of the previous aforesaid do strictly enjoin and commanded you the said Louis Tayon and all and every the previous before mentioned that you absolutely desist from proceedings at law in the premises you the said Louis Tayon in taking out execution against the said Maurice Blondeau for the amount of the said judgment, You the said Maurice in paying the henceover and you the said Bazile in receiving the same or any part or parcel of the same until the hearing after cause

by our said Superior Court sitting as a court of chancery as aforesaid

Witness the Honorable Alexander Stuart Esquire presiding Judge of our said court at St. Louis this fourteenth day of June until year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen and of our independence the fourty first J. V. Garnier atty S. C. N. C.

This writ was executed by reading to Louis Tayon and Maurice Blondeau in the Town and Count of St Louis and territory of Missouri June 14, 1917 Bazil Proulx not found in St . Louis county

J W Thompson

2 serves $ 1.20 1 non Ext .50 $ 1.70

No 3 In Chancery September term 1817 Michel Lacroix Louis Tayon , Blondeau & B. Proulx

Injunction

Notice of Application for Injunction Certificate of Service

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 Notice of Application for Injunction Lacroix, Michel Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit Certificate of Service Dardenne, Auguste Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit Sir

Take notice that on friday next the 13th of this month between the hours of ten in the morning and five O Clock in the afternoon of that day of shall apply to the honorable Silas Bent at his house near the town of St Louis for an injunction to stay all proceedings at law in a certain suit wherein you attained judge-ment against Maurice Blondeau on a note purporting to be have been endorsed by Bazile Proulx to you

Michel Lacroix 10th june 1817 Louis Tayon County of St louis ss

Auguste Dardenne being duly sworn on his oath saith that he did on the twelfth instant personally serve Louis Tayon with a copy of the within notice by leaving the same with the said Louis Tayon in the church street near the church ground

Auguste Dardenne

Sworn to & subscribed this19th day June 1817before me

J V Garnier JP Bill of Complaint

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 Bill of Complaint Carr, A.V. Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit To the honorable the judges of the superior court for the territory of Missouri in chancery sitting for the northern circuit in said territory

humbly complaining showeth unto your honors young orator Michel Lacroix of the town of St. Louis that some time in the year eighteen hundred & fifteen he equipped or furnished to one certain Bazile Proulx an assortment of merchandise suitable for the Indian trade and was to receive payment therefore out of the proceeds of the sales - the said Proulx sold the said good to one Maurice Blondeau & took his note therefore amounting to the sum of twelve thousand two hundred and forty three livres ten sols payable in the spring following as will be seen by a copy of said note hereonto an- nexed & prayed to be made and taken as part and parcel of this bill - before this note became due, Proulx for the mere purposes of collection placed the same with the said Bazille Proulx and Maurice Blondeau in the hands of one Louis Tayon who your orator Prays may be made defendants to this his Bill of complaint - Tayon told Proulx as your orator is informed & expects to prove that in order to enable him to collect the note it would be necessary for his name to be endorsed on the Back thereof. This was accordingly done by said Proulx as your orator is informed and believes it to be true - and the said Louis Tayon afterwards wrote or caused to be written over said Proulx's name a regular endorsement as is stated and written on the back of said note and the copy thereof here - with exhibited- On this note said was brought by Tayon in the circuit court for the county of St Louis and Judgement thereon obtained at the November term Eighteen hundred & sixteen of said court against said Blondeau for the sum of - one thousand seven hundred and twenty six dollars and twenty cents besides the costs of said said amounting to thirty five dollars, eighty cents

In this said your orator & one Patrick Lee entered as the bail of Blondeau and are now liable to be proceeded against as such by said Tayon Your orator was ordered to become Blondeau's bail for a very obvious reason which was that the amount then due from Blondeau to said Proulx was justly coming to him as the equipper of said Proulx and therefore the said aforesaid at common law was defended by him in said Blondeau's name But the name - of said Proulx having in fact as your orator has before stated been endorsed on said note though without any valuable consideration therefore no defense at law could be made sufficient to avoid Judgement nor was your orator permitted to show under what circumstances the said note was assigned - your orator however charges that the fact to be that the said note was endorsed to said Tayon merely to collect and not to transfer the property therein to him and that he never paid said Proulx one cent thereof nor therefore and that your orator is justly and equitably entitled to more than the remanding their due to wit about sixteen hundred dollars whole amount thereof that both Proulx and Tayon as a poor - the latter of whom your orator is very able to prove to your honours never had nor has he now property or means sufficient to purchase either a note or any other article of property of the value of the said note - and that unless your orator can enjoin the payment of this judgment in the hands of Blondeau he knows of no property or means

Bill of Complaint

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 Bill of Complaint Carr, A.V. Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit

of getting paid either by Proulx or Tayon that the said Tayon will knowing he never paid one cent to Proulx for said note and that the assignment there of was only intended to enable him (as he himself stated and persuaded said Proulx to believe ) to collect the debt & not to transfer the property therein to him and will knowing moreover the advantage he has over your orator at common law by said endorsement in order to displace your orator out of the amount due on said note; is proceeding to collect the same by execution against said Blondeau & if not from him then from your orator & said Lee as his bail

But now so it is may it please your honors the said Louis Tayon and confederating to and with them the said Proulx & Blondeau & with divers other persons at present unknown to whose names where discovered your orator prays may be inserted in this his bill of complaint with apt words to charge them the order to defraud & cheat your orator out of the amount remaining due as aforesaid on said note amounting as aforesaid to the sum of about sixteen hundred dollars currency of the United States , pretends that he is entitled to the whole amount of said balance he well knows that he paid nothing for said note - that it was endorsed by said Proulx in blank that is merely with his name or signature on the back thereof, merely to enable him the more certainty to collect the amount thereof and not to transfer the property therein to him, and altho he well knew that the aforesaid amount then due on said note was due and owing to your orator as the equipper of said Proulx at and before the time of said endorsement yet of his own accord if he did not purchase said note in fact & intruth & on that can in collusion with said Proulx is endeavoring to cheat & defraud your orator of the same your orator furthermore states that the said note has been repeatedly demanded of said Tayon both by your orator and the said Proulx as has been stated to your orator by this last also that he should desist from the collection thereof. To which he replies that if your orator will give him five or six hundred dollars out of the aforesaid ballance of said note he will give it up Being fully aware that your orator would be able in this honorable court where the merits of this transaction can be fully searched into, thoroughly to develope and expose to the scorn & contempt of the publick this most wicked and nefarious fraud the said Louis Tayon has also through different persons and at different times, proposed a compromise to your orator and offered to relinquish his claim to the contents of said note of your orator would pay him a certain sum of money less than half the amount of said balance for which he has obtained judgement. In the fullness of his hopes that the laws of this country would afford him an opportunity of showing the justice of his claim to the which amount of said judgement, your orator has uniformly spurned with indignation at all their offers of a compromise for a part thereof. All which actings & doings of the said Louis Tayon & the confederates are fraudulent oppresive & unjust

In under consideration whereof and for as much as your orator is perfectly remedyless at Common law and cannot have a discovery from said Tayon & the said Proulx themselves on their oaths whether the said Tayon did really in truth purchase said note of Proulx & of so how much he paid for or whether the same was not left in his hands & opposition merely for collection & endorsed by said Proulx in blank for

 Bill of Complaint

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that porpose only to the end therefore that the said and the said Louis Tayon & his conferates when discovered and the said Maurice Blondeau & Proulx may trueful distinct and the perfect answer respectively make to all and singular the matters & things herein and hereby charged & that in as full and ample a manner as if the same were here again particularly repeated & interrogated; and that the said Louis Tayon in particular and the other defendants may set forth discover and say whether the copy of the note hereunto annexed is correct. If it is not that the vari-ancce may be shown . If it is correct whether the origin-al was endorsed by Bazille Proulx the payee and left with him said Tayon for collection. If not left with him to collect merely for said Proulx or your orator did he purchase it. If so how much he paid for it whether any person and who was present when he bought it or paid In what did he pay for it? whether he did not know before and at the time the note was and endorsed that the balance then remaining due on it and more was coming to your orater from said Proulx for the said merchandise for which the note was given did not said Proulx tell him so? in what manner was the endorsement made - who was present at the time. Who wrote the endorsement over the name of Proulx - whether he did not tell Proulx that his name was necessary to be endorsed on the back of said note inorderto enable him to collect it for her said Proulx's and was the endorsement made on to when of was first to him said Tayon & if not how long after wards was it till the endorsement was made whether their he did not know at and before the endorsement that your orator was the equipper of said Proulx & that he owed him for said goods - Whether it is not usual customary in this country for Indian traders Traders to be equipped or furnished with merchandise on credit to trade with the indians on their promise to pay the equipper out of the first proceeds of the trade - whether in fact it was not the custom and usage inferred in this country under the spanish government to give the equipper a lien on the goods sold to the trader and the privilege of being first paid in preference of every other creditor that they may state whether such proceedings were not had on said note in court as is stated above and whether your orator and said Lee and not bail in said suit - whether the said Tayon has not obtained judge-ment therein & for how much - whether he is not now proceeding by execution at law against said Blondeau for the recovery of said judgement & if not obtained by execution against him whether he does not mean to pursue your orator as his bail first how much said Proulx owed your orator at that endorsement & now owes him - whatever circumstances as property your orator therefore prays your honours that an injunction may be granted him in the aforesaid suit commanding & enjoining him the said Louis Tayon from proceeding at law against the aforesaid Maurice Blondeau for the amount of said judge-ment until the final hearing in this cause and that on such final hearing the said writ of in-juction may be decreed to be perpetual and that the said Blondeau be authorized and decreed to pay the amount of said judgement to your orator and generally that your orator may have such other & further relief in the principles as the nature of his case may require & your honors may thereof meet and proper to grant and your

 Bill of Complaint

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 Bill of Complaint Carr, A.V. Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit

orator will ever pray

Carr atty for complainant

Michel Lacroix the above named Complainant being duly sworn on his oath saith that the matters & things contained & stated in the above & foregoing bill are true so far as they are stated from his knowledge & so far as they are stated from the knowledge of others he verily believes them to be true

Michel Lacroix

Sworn to & subscribed before me one of the Judges of the superior court for said territory this 13th of June 1817

Silas Bent </titleStmt> <publicationStmt> <p>This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit Court historical records project.</p> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <p>The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.</p> </sourceDesc> </fileDesc> <profileDesc/> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div1> <pb facs="5611_012.tif" n="012"/> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI> <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" > <teiHeader> <fileDesc> <titleStmt> <title>Unknown Certificate of Filing

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 Unknown Certificate of Filing Garnier, J.V. Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit Copy

Temoie Soufique Maurice Blondeau en presen de Temoint soufique Recconoit devoir et Promet payer au sieur Bazil Proulx la Somme de Douze mille deux cent guarantee trois livre in solls pour valeur recue in marchandises payable dans le courant du moil de mars mille seize

Riviere des grande os Riviere Maria le 12 Dec 1815 Maurice Blondeau Temoint la Batiste Roy mark John B . Gated (on the back is written)

Billet de Maurice Bloudeau

livre

12243-10

avoir par tout compte product deux cent treute six livres dex sols

2236-1

10 007 -00

La presente obligation , Louis Tayon cautte laws dessain cest 1816 Bllle Proulx Territory of Missouri County of St Louis

M. P. Leduc Clerk of the circuit within and for the county aforesaid certify the foregoing to be a true of copy of a note and file in my office Drawn by Maurice Blondeau in favor of Bazile Proulx

In The witness whereof I have here unto aforesaid aforesaid the end of the office of the clerk of the county aforesaid this day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen M .P . Leduc Clerk McGirk , Dep Clerk 57 no2 In Chancery September term 1817 Michel Lacroix vs Louis Tayon & all

Bill

No57

filed June 11th 1817

J. V. Garnier atty (Discontinned) Order to Issue Injunction

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 Order to Issue Injunction Bent, Silas Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit To the clerk of the superior court for the territory of Missouri

You are hereby directed to issue a writ of injunction against Louis Tayon & Maurice Blon-deau their agents & attornies for the amount of the judgement specified in the Bill take Bond agreeably to Law in double the amount of the judgment at law being the sum prayed to be enjoined, Antoine Soulard , Manuel (Lisa) or Jean P. Cabanne are either of them approved if as securely to the bond-the Bill being one filed by Michel Lacroix against said Tayon, Maurice Blondeau and Bazile Proulx & filed in your office 12 June 1817

Silas Bent </titleStmt> <publicationStmt> <p>This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit Court historical records project.</p> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <p>The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.</p> </sourceDesc> </fileDesc> <profileDesc/> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div1> <pb facs="5611_016.tif" n="016"/> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI> <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" > <teiHeader> <fileDesc> <titleStmt> <title>Writ for Louis Tayon and Bazile Proulx to Appear Certificate of Execution

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 Writ for Louis Tayon and Bazile Proulx to Appear Bent, Silas Garnier, J.V. Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit Certificate of Execution Devore, William Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit Territory of Missouri Northern Circuit The United States of America to Louis Tayon and Bazile Proulx Greeting

We command you that all excuses and delays being set aside, you and each of you personally be and appear before the judges of our superior court of our territory of Missouri , at our said superior court sitting a court of chancery and to be held in for the northern circuit of the said territory at the town of St Louis , on the third monday in September next, then and there in our said court before our judges of our said court to answer the Bill of complaint of Michel Lacroix exhibited against you and of this you are not to fail at your peril and our Sheriff of our county of St Charles , is hereby commanded and required then and there to make return of this our writ, and certify to our said court before our judges how he executed the service

Witness The Honorable Silas Bent Esquire presiding judge of our said court at St. Louis this fourteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and seventeen and of our Independence the forty first J. V. Garnier , J P S C N C

Executed on Bazile Proulx in the town and township of Saint Charles on the seventh day of July 1817,and on Louis Tayon on the twentysecond day of July 1817 in the aforesaid town and township of Saint Charles

Wm. Devore, Shff Executed St. Charles In Chancery September term 1817 Michel Lacroix vs Louis Tayon & Bazile Proulx

subpoena

Sheriff fees Services $1.20 Demurrer of Louis Tayon to Bill of Complaint

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 Demurrer of Louis Tayon to Bill of Complaint McGirk, M. Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit

In the Superior sitting as a Court of chancery; In the northern Circuit of the term of August 1817 The Demurrer of Louis Tayon one of the defendants to the Bill of complaint of Michel Lacroix

Louis Tayon , Baxil Proulx and Maurice Blondeau, Defendants Michel Lacroix - Complainant,

Louis Tayon one of the defendents in this case by protestation not confessing or acknowledging all or any of the matters or things in and by the said Bill set forth and complained of to be true in manner and form as the same are therein and thereby set forth are alleged saith he is advised by his counsel that there is no matter or thing in law to to call this defendant in question in this honorable court for the same and that there is good cause of demurrer thereunto and therefore this defendant doth demur thereunto and for cause of demurrer this defendant saith that the complainants said Bill in case the allegations therein contained were true which this defendant doth in no admit contains not any matter of equity whereon this court can ground any matter of equity whereon the court can ground any decree or give the complainant any relief or assistance as against him this defendant wherefore and for devious other error and imperfections In the said Bill appearing this defendant doth demur in said thereunto and humbly demand the judgment of this honorable court whether he shall be compelled to to put in any other or further answer to the said bill and humbly prays to be hence dismissed with his reasonable costs in this behalf most wrongfully sustained

M McGirk Solicitor and counselor for defendant Louis Tayon et al

demurrer to bill for injunction to stay proceedings at law 1827

Michel Lacroix filed August 25th 1817 J. V. Garnier atty S. C. N. C. Writ for Louis Tayon, Maurice Blondeau, and Bazile Proulx to Appear Certificate of Execution

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 Writ for Louis Tayon, Maurice Blondeau, and Bazile Proulx to Appear Stuart, Alexander Garnier, J.V. Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit Certificate of Execution Thompson , J.W. Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit Territory of Missouri to Northern circuit

The United States of America to Louis Tayon , Maurice Blondeau and Bazile Proulx Greeting - We command you that all excused and delays being set aside you and each of you personally be and appear before the judges of our superior court of our Territory of Missouri at our said superior court sitting as a court of chancery in and for the northern circuit at the Town of St. Louis on the third Monday in Septmeber next then and there in our said court before our judges of our said court to answer the Bill of complaint of Michel Lacroix then and there against them and of this you are not to fail at your peril and our sheriff of our county of St. Louis is hereby - commanded then and there to make return of this our writ and certify to our said court before our judges how he executes this writ.

Witness The Honorable Alexander Stuart Esquire presiding judge of our said court at St. Louis this fourteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one Thousand-eight hundred and seventeenth and of our Independence the forty first . J. V. Garnier S. C. N. C. In Chancery September Term 1817 Michel Lacroix vs Louis Tayon, Maurice Blondeau, & B Proulx

subpoena

Carr for complainant

This summons was executed by Reading to Louis Tayon and Maurice Blondeau on the 14th day of June 1817 in the Town of St. Louis and Territory of Missouri and leaving a copy of the Bill with Louis Tayon Bazil Proulx not found in the county of St Louis

J. W. Thompson SHFF

2 services $ 1.20 1 non est .50 $ 1.70

The word which is blotted in this is Bill

JWT Shff Injunction

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 Injunction Stuart, Alexander Garnier, J.V. Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit Territory of Missouri Northern circuit In Chancery The United States of America to Louis Tayon & Maurice Blondeau, their counselors attornies or agents - Greeting -

Whereas it Hath been represented to our judges of our superior Court of our Territory of Missouri sitting as a court of chancery in and for the Northern Circuit, on the part of Bazile Proulx, Michel Lacroix and Frederick Oliver complainants against you the said Louis Tayon and Maurice Blondeau defendants that they the said Michael Lacroix and Frederick Oliver being possessed of large quantities of merchandise suitable for the Indian fur trade in the fall of the year eighteen hundred and fifteen at St Louis , they made a sale of a part thereof to the aforesaid Bazile Proulx to the amount of one thousand six hundred and ninety four dollars or there abouts the payment for which was assured to them by the note in writing , of the said Bazile Proulx for that amount the same dated in October or November of the year some time in the enduring spring out of the proceeds of the sale of the said goods-that the said Bazile Proulx made sale of the said good to you the said Maurice Blondeau for the sum of twelve thousand two hundred and forty three livres ten sols and took your note therefore payble to him- self in the course of the month of March then next following , which said note was in his hands humbly as trustee for the use and benefit of his equippers of which you the said Blondeau had notice that after said note became due at cote sans dessein the said Bazile Proulx delivered the said note to you the said Louis Tayon with intention to make collection of the same by seizing the packs of fur and pelts of said Maurice upon their arrival at St Louis or St. Charles , which the said Louis undertook to do but represented to the said Proulx that to give him authority to collect the said amount, it was necessary that the said Bazile Proulx should set his name on the back of said note, which was by him done in over to enable you the said Louis to collect the said note for the benefit of himself and equippers that the name of the said Bazile was placed in Blank on the Back of said note, unaccompanied by any Words, importing an assignment of the contracts there of to you the said Tayon , nor was any made or contemplated to the made to you nor any sum whatever paid or offered to the paid by you said Proulx for said note that on the arrival of the said Bazile Proulx at St. Charles , earlier in the month of April and before the payment of the said note to you said Louis he demanded the same of you said Louis who informed him that you had placed the same in the hands of Edward Hempstead for collection, but promised to get it back for said Bazile and afterwards pretended that you had actually sent for it but that Mr. Hempstead was at Misere and that on his return or at the next court at St. Charles you would get it for where upon a second demand in presence of said Hempstead you pretended and avered that you had bought the same you the said Bazile for the sum of about six hundred dollars. That you the said Blondeau afterwards with the approbation of said Proulx paid to said Michel Lacroix the amount of said note taking his receipt for the same, together with a written understanding to indemnify him against all costs and damages which Tayon might be entitled to an account of said payment That a suit was accordingly entitled against said Blondeau by you said Louis and a recovery had of the lawsuit of said note and execution issued against said Blondeau , which said execution has since been satisfied and the said Maurice wholly acquitted and discharged therefore in virtue of an arrangement made between the said Maurice Blondeau an and the said Tayon whereby the said Blondeau to him the said Tayon the said written undertaking by said Michel given to said Maurice against the decrees and demands of the said Louis on account of the said note which said written undertaking is now in the hands of the said Louis Tayon had his since been put in against the said Michel Lacroix in the circuit court of the county of St Louis and praying the most gracious writ of injunction directed to you the said Louis Tayon & Maurice Blondeau your counsellors, attornies, solicitors and agents commanding you and each of you to desist and proceed no further at law against the said Michel Lacroix until the final hearing of this

Injunction Certificate of Execution

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 Injunction Stuart, Alexander Garnier, J.V. Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit Certificate of Execution Garnier, J.V. Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit

Cause and that on said final hearing the said injunction may be decreed to he perpetual . We therefore in consideration of the premises, aforesaid, do strictly enjoin and command you the said Louis Tayon and Maurice Blondeau, your counsellors attornies solicitors or agents, the said Michel Lacroix having filed a bond with security as required by laws, you desist from proceeding any further in the suit at law so by you entitled against the said Michel Lacroix in the said circuit court of the county of St. Louis aforesaid until the hearing of this cause by our said Superior court sitting as a court of chancery .

Witness the Honorable Alexander Stuart Esquire presiding judge of our said court at St. Louis this thirteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen and of our Independence the forty second J. V. Garnier S. C. N. C. In Chancery Northern Circuit March term 1818 Bazile Proulx , Lacroix,F. Oliver vs Louis Tayon & Maurice Blondeau (Injunction)

Executed this writ October 13th 1817 in the Town of St Louis

A. V. Carr Deft (attorney for defendant) 2 services $1. 60 Filed request 1818 J. V. Garnier

october 13th 1817

Writ for Louis Tayon and Maurice Blondeau To Appear Certificate of Execution

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 Writ for Louis Tayon and Maurice Blondeau To Appear Garnier, J.V. Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit Certificate of Execution Devore, William Territory of Missouri Superior Court Northern Circuit In Chancery, Northern Circuit The United States of America to Louis Tayon and Maurice Blondeau Greeting

You are summoned that all excuses and delays being set aside, You and each of you personally be and appear Before the judges of our superior court of our Territory of Missouri at our said superior sitting as a court of chancery in and for the Northern Circuit , at the Town of St. Louis on the fourth Monday in March next, then and there in our said Court before our Judges of our Said Court to answer the Bill of complaint of Bazile Proulx, Michel Lacroix and Frederick Oliver exhibited against You , and to do further and receive what our said court shall have considered in this Behalf and this your may in quit at your peril - and our Sheriff of our county of St. Charles is hereby commanded then and there to make return of this our writ and certify to our court how he executes the same

Witness the Honorable Alexander Stuart Esquire presiding Judge of our said court at St Louis this thirty first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and Seventeen and of our independence the forty Second J. V. Garnier S. C. N. C. No.1 In Chancery, Northern Circuit March Term 1818 Bazile Proulx et others, Louis Tayon & Maurice Blondeau

SUBPOENA

Executed Sheriffs fees

Service 80cts Travel 12 0.92

Executed on Louis Tayon in the town and township of Saint Charles on the 6th day of January 1818, & delivered a copy of the Complainants Bill Maurice Blondeau is not to be found in my county

Uriah J. Devore, Shff