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            <party role="plaintiff">Tayon, Louis</party>
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            <clerk>Leia, Mannel</clerk> 
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                        <placeName>
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                              <orig>St</orig>
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                        <orig>Charles</orig>
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                        <orig>Louis</orig>
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                              <orig>St</orig>
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                  <abbr>No</abbr> 18. <dateline>
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                           <orig>St Louis Circuit</orig>
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