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This is an action of
terpass on
the case
in town Damage
$ 3000 issue a
to
filed
1817
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and at the place aforesaid and afterwards
towit on the
year of one thousand eight hundred and
sixteen
disposed of the ford goods and
are to
said plaintiff as administrator
as afore
said the sum of three thousand dollars
and therefore he brings his suit
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that he be and appear at our
be held at the Town of
the county of
next before our Judge thereof then there to answer
unto
were of
a plea of Trespass on the case, to the damage of the
said plaintiff as aforesaid the
sum of three
thousand dollars, and have you then there this writ
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Thomas
hundred & fifteen dependant had some
property in his possession in a damaged
condition consisting of some Buffalo robes
which were said to belong to one
Butler was
some time previous
and that the body
of Butler was taken from the
Defendant or his hands and that the property
was
and left with
that
delivered the property to James
took his receipt and witness become
the good The goods remained in the
block house
except some
home by
delivered up by one
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claimed the same as he understood
when the good were delivered by
to
them up to any person who should appear
to be legally authorized to receive the same
witness
the property was Butlers Defendant
said that there were
papers in his
which showed his name to be Butler
witness understood at the time
that
and that Dependant
good in the black
house to dry & store
them
given the receipt Defendant made
said
it would make no difference for that
they said they would come after the
good before long when he might
deliver them up
I hereby consent that the foregoing papers
or affidant be read as evidance on the trail
of
the above entitled suit
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we reposing special writ and confidence
in your in
and command you that you cause to
before you such persons as shall be
you by
upon their
touching their knowledge of any thing that may
case now
Butler deceased is plaintiff and
Defendant and having reduced the
said deposition so taken by you
as aforesaid
to
hand and
to our said court with all
speed
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on
attorney for the defendant
it is ruled that
of the peace at
in the state of
depositions of witness on the port of the
defendant
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Please to remember that on the third saturday
in Febuary
in the state of
of witness between the hours
of six o clock in the
morning and six o clock in the evining to be read
as evidence
in the writ you have brought against
me in the
may
attend if you please
1817
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Filed
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Pierre
witness on the part of
the plaintiff in this
sworn deposes and says
that he has attended as a witness in this
action during the
eight days and further saith not
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Filed this
1818
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St Louis County for
and chattels rights and credits which
complains of
trespass on the case for that whereas the
said Butler in his life time towit
on the
at a place
in the township of
New
towit at
and within the jurisdiction of this court
lawfully
towit twenty four Bear
of Deer skins one hundred and thirty nine
Buffalo Robes one hundred and eighty seven
pounds of
up
fourteen packs of Buffalo
robes
of Deer skins four
skin fourteen hats ninety nine pounds
of
and thirty nine dollars and fifty cents in
Bank notes and
the Bank of
fifteen of the same bank
of five dollars
each fifteen of the same
dollars each fifteen of the Bank of
of ten dollars each fifteen of
the same Bank of five dollars cash of great
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value towit of the value of three thousand
dollars and being so
said
day and year and at the place aforesaid
fur trunks hats buffalo
his
on the same day and year at the
came to the
and whereas also the said
his lifetime towit on the day and
year at
the place and within the
foresaid was lawfully
goods and chattels towit
twenty four
thirty nine Buffalo Robes one hundred and
eighty seven pounds of
trunks
sealed up nineteen
fox skins and one
otter skin fourteen
packs of Buffalo robes eleven packs of
deer skins fourteen hats
ninety nine
of
and thirty nine dollars and fifty cents in
bills and
Bank of the state of
each commonly
of the same Bank of five dollars each
and fifteen notes of the same bank of
twenty dollars each fifteen of the
of
of the same bank of five dollars each
of great value towit
of the value of three
thousand dollars as of his own property and
afterwards towit on the same day and year and
at the
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after whose death towit on the
September in
the year of our Lord one thous
and eight hundred and fifteen
of
aforesaid towit at
of
this writ the said goods and chattels came to
the
defendant by finding and after wards towit
on the
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixteen
and chattles rights
& credits of the said
Butler
after mentioned
and
whereas also the said
as administrator as aforesaid afterwards and
after the death of the said
towit at the plan aftersaid on the
day of september in the year of one thou
sand eight
hundred and fifteen
of twenty four
bear skins thirteen packs of
skins one hundred and thirty nine
of
of
of
thirty nine dollars and fifty cents in
of the value of three thousand dollars
property as such administrator as aforesaid and
being so
wards towit on the same day and year at the
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and the same then there come to the possession
of the said defendant by finding
yet the said defendant, well knowing the
said goods and chattels to be the property
of
the said
and at the time of his death and
after
his
tiff
administrator as aforesaid to which
said plaintiff after the death of the
said
our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and
sixteen
and singular the goods chattels, rights
and credits
which were of the said
Butler
who died
of the Circuit court within and
for the
of
aforesaid according to the statute in that
law was granted
but
the said
aforesaid since the death of the said
Butler in this behalf did not deliver the said
goods & chattels or any of
them or any
to said plaintiff administrator or aforesaid although often
requested so to do and
said plaintiff to
chattels to him on the
in the year of
aforesaid at the place aforesaid as
as aforesaid And the said defendant
afterwards and after the death of the said
day of september in the year of
one thousand right hundred and fifteen
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In vacation
on motion of Mr
for plaintiff it is ruled that
Judge or Justice
of the peace in the county of New
in the
county of
of witness on the part of the plaintiff
A true
We reposing special trust and confidence in your
you that you
cause to come before you such persons
as shall be named to you by
of all and singular the goods and chattels rights
and credits of
upon their
ing their knowledge
of any thing that may relate to a
certain suit now pending in our said Circuit court
where
is
plaintiff and
the part of the said plaintiff and having
reduced
the said depostions so taken by you as aforesaid
into writing you send the
same with this commission
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enclosed under your hand and seal to our said
Court with all
Take Notice that
issued thereon Depositions of witness will be taken on the
part of the plaintiff in
the above case at the
Ferron at the town
of
on the
nine o'clock in the forenoon and six o clock in the afternoon
of those days Dated the
declared and says that on the
eighteen hundred and eighteen
a
notice and rule on
defendant of which the within are true
copies
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of
F A
Estate
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In obedience to a
in the State of
1817
any Judge or Justice of the
as should be
manner
their
to a Certain action of trespass
pending in
another point of the defendant,
is in the following wrong : us
administrator of
february
the depositions of
of
in the
please
to being one o'clock in the
any
of East
this Court
house of Baton
and Case
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that there was a boat
owner was said to have been
was requested to be
Boat called himself
he
the
Byrd would not
take charge of it, at all, in
answer of his
said Dublin said the
whether he could not leave the said part of
loading on a black
at
his
thing to do with it;
this own
writ
Byrd to make out a
bill, for him to show
what he had saved; but this
that from the and
to
wasn't between the
and Dublin, he knows that
was not to be
of loading left
that
and in the month of
returned to the
in
go out
the
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in
the a receipt for the same, by
further this
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paid postage on these depositions $ 1.75
Filed
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The Deposition of Witness, produced, sworn and Examined, on the
hundred and
Eighteen
in the fornoon, and Six O Clock
in the afternoon of that day at the
House of
tice of the
a Dedimus
for the Examination of Witnesses, in a certain cause now
depending in the Circuit Court
of the
Territory of
Butler, decd : plaintiff, and
part of the plaintiff, deposeth and
saith, That in the fall of the year
say that there was a parcel of goods
the property of
in said Byrd's Black house, at the mouth of
the
informed Jacob Robinson, who was then at the aforesaid
place, that he the said
might have the said storage for said
this deponent further states that he was after
to
Value the aforesaid goods and that there
Buffaloe Robes; which
One hundred and eighty or
and Twenty five Cents p pound - Ten Packs of Deer Skins - valued at Four
Dollars a
Pack - Twenty Bear Skins - value not recollected - and Four
teen Hats - Valued at One
Dollar and Fifty Cents each. -
Question by the Defendant - Do you know that
possession of the
goods above mentioned at that time -
no Knowledge that
saw him in possession of them afterwards - Qustion by Defendant - Did you
hear James
Lucas say that he and
property - The Plaintiff
its being hearsay Testimony - which objection being
this Deponent Saith that he heard Said Lcuas say that he and
Fletcher had
receipted for the goods, & that he the said
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is not,
property in his hands to a considerable amount- answer- I certainly
would have
alluded to - and further this Deponent
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The execution of this commission appears by a Schedule here
unto annexed given at
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opened and filed on the