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            <title>Phebe Stubbs v. William Burd</title>
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            <date type="filing" when="1837-12-11">December 11, 1837</date>
            <date type="term" when="1837-11"> November Term 1837</date>
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            <caseTitle>Phebe Stubbs v. William Burd</caseTitle>
            <date type="filing" when="1837-12-11">December 11, 1837</date>
            <date type="term" when="1837-11"> November Term 1837</date>
            <party role="plaintiff">Stubbs, Phebe</party>
            <party role="defendant">Burd, William </party>
            <causeAction type="civil">Trespass</causeAction>
            <causeAction type="civil">False Imprisonment</causeAction>
            <causeAction type="civil">Assault</causeAction>
            <causeAction type="civil">Battery</causeAction>
            <caseNo>523</caseNo>
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            <court type="state">St. Louis Circuit Court</court>
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            <clerk>Ruland, John</clerk>
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            <attorney for="plaintiff">Hudson</attorney>
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               <title>Plaintiff's Complaint</title>
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               <p>This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit
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               <author role="attorney">Hudson</author>   
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                        <orig>St. Louis</orig>
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                     <supplied>held</supplied>
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                        <orig>Stubbs</orig>
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                     <supplied>then</supplied>
                  </unclear> and there did against<lb/> the <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                           <orig>P</orig>
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                  <abbr>No</abbr> 523
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                     <date when="1837-11">November Term 1837</date>
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                  <dateline>Filed <date when="1837-12-11">December 11th 1837</date>
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                           <orig>John Ruland</orig>
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