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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.
St Louis County Ss-
the age of Twenty one years by
next friend complains of
of trespass
for that the said defendant heretofore to wit
on the
our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty two
in said County with force & arms an assault did
make upon her said
there
to
without any reasonable on probable cause
from the day
and during the time aforesaid did imprison
the said
said County & kept & detain her in prison there
as a runaway slave for the span of ten days
he the said defendant then & there knowing
the said plaintiff to be a
wrongs to the said plaintiff then & there did
against the peace & dignity of said state
By means of
affairs &
should have obtained a large sum of money
wherefore the plaintiff says she is
& hath sustained Damages to three hundred
Dollars & therefore she sues
I acknowledge my willingness to prosecute the above
as her next friend
We Command you to summon Curtis Skinnier that
he be and appear before the Judge of our
term thereof to be held at the city of
there to answer unto
twenty one years of a plea of trespass assault & Battery & false imprison
ment to the damage of the said plaintiff of three Hundred dollars
and have you then there this writ
Not executed for want of time
27th 1835
next friend
vs
This is an action of
ment at
& not under the
The Clk and
issue a summons
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And the said defendant by
when, &.C & says that he is not guitly of the said
supposed trespasses in the declaration mentioned in
of complained against him, & of this he puts him
self upon the country & c.
and for a further plea this defendant says that
said plaitiff ought not to have and maintain
his said action thereof against him because he
says that at and during the time
supposed tresasses were committed, she the plaitiff
was a slave and not a free person to but at said
County and this he is ready to verify where-
fore he prays judgment & C.
and for a further plea this defendant says that
the plaintiff ought not to have and maintain
her said action thereof against him as to said subjecting her to slavery & imprisoning her & keeping & detaining her in prison because he
says that said plaintiff is a colored person &
was born a slave and has always remained
in the condition of a slave then held and treated
as such: and that before the said supposed
passes were committed, she was sold and delivered
to this defendant as a slave, he not knowing or having notice that
she was entitled to her freedom: wherefore the
mitted the several acts alleged in said declaration
as trespasses and in this plea justified as he will might do, he not knowing
then of her right to freedom or having had notice of
the same and this he is ready to verify and as
to the assaulting heating
as to the force and arms &.C, he says he is not
guilty & of that he puts himself upon the county
vs
pleas
not guilty
plff in condition of
Clerk
fees book 22.2
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vs
Executed this writ by Reading it to
Thomas
days of march 1836
You are hereby commanded to summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, they be and appear in proper person
before the Judge of our
at the city of
and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said Court,
Wherein
plaintiff and
is
Plaintiff
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vs
Served this writ on
on the 7th &
to them in the county of
Your hereby commanded to summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, they be and appear in proper person
before the Judge of our
at the city of
and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said Court,
wherein
plaintiff and
defedant on the part of the
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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
in my county
E.
M. A.
vs C. S
Pltf
You are hereby commanded to summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and elay, he be and appear in proper person
before the Judge of our
at the city of
and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said Coiurt, wherein
plaintiff and
is
and have you then and there this writ.
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vs
You are hereby commanded to summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, they be and appear in proper person
before the Judge of our
at the city of
and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in our said Court,
wherein
plaintiff and
defedant ont he part of the
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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
Executed By reading this
within
vs
plff
You are hereby commanded to summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, they be and appear in proper
person before the Judge of our
of August instant
testify and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy now pending in
our said Court, wherein
defendant on the part of