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vs
The within is a counterpart of the writ
Issued to the Sheriff of the
We Command you to summon John Butter and
alias
next Term thereof to be held at the city of
the Fourth Monday in July next then
& there to answer unto
Color who
is permitted by the court to sue by
person of a plea of trespass to the damage of said plaintiff of
Five hundred dollars
and have you then
Executed the within writ on John Butler and
Butler his
wife in Newport
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is
by
Attornies
as counsel by the said court, complains of
Butter and
and
and
to
our
Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty five
and
and
and other
did
the said
to the amount of
five hundred dollars and there
fore she
We Command you to Summon
and
thereof to be held at the city of
Monday in July
next then and there to
permitted
a plea of
then there this writ
vs
To the Clerk of the
This is an action of
for the defendants
for
The
Mattew and
wife. John
Butler and
his wife.
and
in my County
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Executed this writ on
the
named in
this writ are not to be found in my County.
Place of abode in my County, known to me, at which should have a copy hereof
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of St. Louis County
Action of Trespass of
vs
vs
Same
vs
Same
vs
John Butler &
Lucinda Whitset alias whitesides
Winnitta a free girl of color
vs
Same
named causes, now
pending in the
taken, or taken by
named causes may be read in all the others, as
far as they
may relate to the matter in controversy
and further, we agree, that
noted to take depositions
in any of the said causes,
on any attorney
of record for either party, instead of
the party or parties, and that
depositions taken in
pursuance of any such notices properly given
as
aforesaid, may be read in the same manner
as if notice had him
served on the party or
parties themselves in person.
vs
Musick. Pettibone &
others.
Agreement between
the attornies of each
party in relation
to
Depositions
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, he
be and appear in proper person before the Judge of our
and the truth to say in a certain
matter of controversy, now pending in our said court, wherein
is
have you then
there this writ.
Served on
in the city of
Fees 50cts
vs
Pittibones Admr
for
for Deft.
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, he be and appear in proper
person before the Judge of our Cir-
cuit Court, on the
testify and the truth to say in a certain
matter of controversy, now pending in our said court, wherein
- - is -
plaintiff , and
have
you then there this wirt.
vs
for
John Bc
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To
tiffs in the above
causes.
You will please take notice, that the said
several plaintiffs, by their
agent or attorney, will
attend at the dwelling house of
the beauty of
On
Saturday the
tween the hours of 10 Oclock A.M. and six Oclock
P.M. of that
day, and then and there take the depo
sitions of
the trial of the above mentioned causes, on the
part
of the plaintiffs, when & where you and
the said plaintiffs,
will attend &
ine, if you think fit.
vs
Pettibone & Musick
depositions at
house of
Saturday
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, he
be and appear in proper person before the Judge of our
to testify and the truth to say in a certain
matter of controversy, now pending in our said court, wherein
vs.
R Pettibones Admrs.
Executed this notice on B C
By reading to him the same
Fee $50
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vs
Pettibone's
and others
and said Levi administrator
of
wife come and defend the
when
of said
in
them in said declaration
put themselves upon the Country &C.
slave of
the said
on said
they are
vs
plea
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You are hereby commanded to Summon
that setting aside
all manner of excuse and delay, he be and appear in proper person before the
Judge of our
to testify and the truth to say in a certain
matter of controversy, now pending in our said court, wherein
Executed this
vs
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We command you to attach
if
with before the judge of
our circuit court, now sitting at the city of
unto the
mitted, in not attending as a witness in a case of
plaintiff, and
defendant, on the part of
the
after being legally
summoned by the sheriff of the said
county, and have you then there
this writ.
vs
attachment for
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We command you to attach
if
with before the judge of our
circuit court, now sitting at the city of
unto the
mitted, in not attending as a witness in a case of
plaintiff, and
after being legally summoned
by the sheriff of the said
county, and have you then there this
writ.
vs
for
JB C
ment was not
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vs.
Levi Pettitione Michael
1826
Be it
this case the plaintiff winne proved that some time about
the year one
thousand seven hundred ninety two one
him
said winne then twelve or fourteen years of age
ding her as a
slave; also then bringing with him his
son
said John
now state of
removed into
said
set during that time said
during all the time
of said Johns
North west Territory
of
the
who stated that he was
at
said in
the fall of the year
had a conversation with said John whitset,
and
country and while he resided
in
of said John who
then
to his son the said
the said father in law did for them although
his
said John's house had just been
his
property; and he had thereupon gone to his said father
in
moved to exclude the declarations of said
relation
to the said deed of gift from the
should not
dingly excluded, To
the defendants counsel excepted
court to
is done accordingly.
vs Pettibone's admistr &
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and her
mentioned
in the petition
vs
Charles
John Butter
Representatives
of
of Thomas Whitset deed &
legal
representations of
Let the order in this can be made, in the usual forum
that
an allowed to sue
the above persons for their freedom
as poor persons by their next
friend, that they are not
to be removed out of the Jurisdiction of the
court, nor
this
application, and that they be not debased of
reasonable
ing to the
Court assign Bates & Mc Girk as counsel
the defendants with
vs
and all the other persons named in
except
Let the order he the same with the addition
that
the Sheriff to any
person he
for the most
he can get till the November
of this court, and then
from term to term till
the suit is finally decided, and that the
Sheriff take
payment of
the hire, and that the
the said
court shall award, and that the
negro liberty of
attending her counsel, and that the
Sheriff
the order of the
Court
also State in the entry that Bates & Mc Girk assigned
by
the Court as counsel by the court
Insert, that the Sheriff
serve the defend
ants with Notice of this order.
Make out a copy and hand it to the Sheriff
in both cases and give it to
the