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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
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permitted by the Court to sue by her next
friend
for her freedom, by her
plains of
of
for to wit, on the
year of our Lord
Eighteen hundred and twenty
five,
upon the body of the said
then and there beat
her the said
her the said
detained her in
prison without any reasonable
or probable cause whatsoever, against her
will
and has
prison, and
still
against the will of the said
contrary to
the laws of the state, and other wrongs
to the said
against the peace of the state, Wherefore the said
sustained damage to
the amount of five hundred
dollars, and therefore she brings her
before the Judge of our circuit court at the next term thereof to be held at the
then and there to answer unto
by the court to sue by
of trespass to the damage of said plaintiff of five hundred dollars, and have you
then
To the Clerk
This is an action of Trespass
false imprisonment.
for
Executed this writ on
acknowledging the service thereof.
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And said
and says as to the
and
declaration mentioned that the
not to have or maintain her
against him
the
at
in the
the said
and this the same
wherefore he
against
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And the
said plaintiff
said defendant and the matters and
things therein contained, in manner
and form as the same
stated and set forth, are not good and
sufficient in law to
the
maintaining her aforesaid action
thereof against the said defendant,
and that the said plaintiff is not
bound by the law of the land to
the same, and this the said plaintiff
is ready to verify, wherefore for the
want of a sufficient plea in this
the said plaintiff
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And the said defendants come
and defend the force and
and say that they are not guilty of the said
in
hath above thereof complained against
them &c.
Marguerite
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And the said
the said Plea of the said
by him first above pleaded, as to the said several
trespasses in the introductory part of that plea
mentioned, and therein attempted to be
Saith, that she the said
by reason of any thing by the said
in that plea alleged, ought not to be barred
from having and maintaining her aforesaid
action thereof against him the said
was not, at the time of the committing of
the said several trespasses by him the said
now a slave, as the said
Plea hath above alleged, but that she the
said
of the said several trespasses, by the
said
set forth, and is now a free person by and
according to the usages,
land, and ought not to be held and detained
as a slave in the
the said
whom the said
she the said
of by the County
Farris Gamble &
plff
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The above named
above case, on the part of the
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1
2 Against Law
3 That
of law to be informed or
the
4 That
the
plaintiff and not upon any
her
5 The
prayed for by the plaintiff to the
Reasons filed for
new trial
11th 1826