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age of twenty
one years and a person of
her next friend
said
in the year of
and twenty one
an
township of
and then and there beat
the said Pelagie and then and there imprisoned her
the said
Pelagie, and
whatsover
of eighty days then next
ot the state and
against the
and other wrongs to the said Pelagi then and there
did to
the great damage of the said Pelagie and
And
one thousand
force and
Pelagie to
wit
laid
and
and
the said
the said
in the said
there
or probable
cause
time
following
and
for him the
said
in the
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of him the siad
house under the
as his
the
and
did than and there
and
there for a long
the
put
to the
said
and
and
aforesaid and
and there did
of
damage
and
This is an action of Trespass assault
battery and false
imprisonment
Damages $ 5,000
Let a Summons
issue
Excuted this writ
by reading it & the declaration to
the
defendant John
P. Cabbanne on
the
in
=ship
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We command you to summon
and
to be
the
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that he is not
in manner
above thereof
And for a
said
not to have or
thereof
at the
was the
at the county
Pelagie ought to
And for a
to have or
said
Autome Soulard and hath ever since been held in
slavery and at the said time when Tc. was held as the slave of
him the
he the said
he prays
judgement if the said
said action thereof against him
Plea
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
>
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay
our
and there to testify and the truth so say in a certain
matter of controversy now pending in our said court,
wherein
and
on the part of the
the
P
not found
in this county
for
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
that setting aside all
manner of exuse and delay
our
and there to testify and the truth so say in a certain matter of
controversy now pending in our said court,
wherein
and
defendant,
on the part of the
April 1823
On
-chere
May 1823
for
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that
Pelagie a woman of colour
and
under the age of
by
Presented
able Court setting forth facts (veri
fied by
affidavit)
the
praying to be permitted
a poor
that this
honorable
suance
of
the prayer of
directed an action of assault
and
battery and false
to be brought
provisions of the
case
made and provided- and
did
was
is
ceeding was had in said
Francois
Vallais
claimed
and
was
the
pelled
zance with condition
thereto touch
ing the
in
case requires- your
petitioner
Francais
Vallais,
of this
or
on
orleans
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of this
the
therefore
facts.
be
also well knew
of the
shew
cause
shewed not
issue
a contempt of
obeying
to