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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.
The petition of
and next friend
that she
city of
is the grand daughter of
the state of
and when about 10 or 11 years old was brought
to
time as a slave and then sold her to a
certain
town of
That the said
grand mother to
about the year
was owned and
slave by the said
grand mother had been held and treated as a
slave in
time above set forth she was sent to
in the Territory aforesaid and some short time
the town of
she has remained as a slave ever since.
Your petitioner further represents that she is
now illegally held in slavery by a certain
ordinances
of
therefore prays that she may be
permitted to sue as a poor person for
the recovery of her freedom by
grand mother and next friend that
be assigned her for that purpose
and finally that your Honor may the
usual orders in such cases and as in
duty bound will ever pray & C
This day
come before the
and things in the foregoing petition contained are
as far as they depend upon her own knowledge
and those derived from the information of
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others she belives to he true
subscribed and sworn to
before me this
of January 1837.
1st It is hereby ordered that
permitted to sue as a poor person for
the recovery of her freedom
grand mother and next friend
her as counsel for that purpose.
2nd That the said
as occasion may
not removed out of the jurisdiction
of the court, and that she be not
subjected to any severity on account
of her application for freedom.
vs
Petition to
forma
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friend by F.W.Risque her attorney complains
of
false imprisonment: For that whereas the
said
of January 1837
force and arms made an assault upon the
said
there beat,
said
her and kept and detained her in prison
then without any reasonable or probable cause
whatsoever for a long space of time to wit:
for the space of Then next following
and against the consent of the said
her mother and next friend
and at time of the committing of the said
and that the said
holds her in salvery to the damage of
the said plaintiff $ 300. and therefore
she brings suit &C.
vs
Declaraion
This is an action of
for false imprisonment brought in forma
of freedom. The clerk will issue a summons. Damage $ 300.
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We command you to summon
he be found in your County, that he be and appear before
the Judge of our
Term thereof, to be held at the
for the
next then and
for false imprisonment, to the damage of said plaintiff
of Three hundred Dollars, and have you then there
this writ.
1st. It is hereby ordered that
for the recovery of her freedom by her grand mother and next friend
2nd- That the said
and the Court as occasion may required that she be not removed
out of the jurisdiction of this court, and that she be not subject
to any
mother & next friend.-
vs
This is an action of trespass
for false imprisonment
Damage $ 300
county