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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
Your petitioner
an infant of color under the age of 21
years by
friend respectfully presents that she was born in
the state of
or about the
Baptiste La Course at the French Village in
the
that said La Cause claimed petitioner as a slave
that as such be sold her to one
who also lived in the state of
Bono afterwards sold and disposed of her as a
slave for life to M. Edward
brought her from the state of
in his family and is used and held to color
and
ownership claimed by
whereas your petitioner claims to be a free person
and prays that your Honor will order
and
four person to establish her right to feedom
Before me
Justice of the
personally appeared Alexis
man of lawful age and made oath that
her next fiend
and here
as a
made and provided
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infant of color
sues by
complains of Edward Mitchell of a
plea
aforesaid did then & there beat stike
and illtreat the said Plaintiff and then
and there did confine and imprison. the
said Plaintiff for a long
to the said plaintiff then and there did
to the
and the said Plaintiff
to the amount of one dollar. And the
said Plaintiff in fact saith that before
and at the time of this commission of
the said
the the said Plaintiff was and still
is a free person and that the said
defendant at the said time above mention-
ed held and detained and
hold and detaing her in slavery where
fore she brings her
It is hereby ordered that the above petitioner
Course be permitted to sue for her freedom as a poor person according
to the form of the
We command you to summon Edward & Mitchell that
he be and appear before the judge of our circuit court at the next term
thereof to be held at the city of
of
to answer into
21 years who
an infant of
by her next
vs
This is a
to the
Executed this
and order of the judge to
of August 1835 in the county of
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Personally appeared in open
Court
he is Counel for the plaintiff in this Cause
that very soon after the commencement of the
same he was informed and
the said plaintiff was removed out of the juridiction
of this Court into the
consent or
this
of property to said plaintiff is
James Mitchel father of said defendant who
that said defendant gave information to
his father the said James Mitchel
of the institution of said suit by said plain
and that therefore said plaintiff was forth
with removed from the
the said defendant or his said father or by both
of them and this affiant futher saith that
he
the purpose of
of a trail of her right to freedom in this
Nov. Term 35
vs
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On motion of A. L. Magenis attorney for the plaintiff, it is ordered that the
rule upon the defendant made at the last November term of this court
be removed therefore it is ordered by the court that the said Edward Mitchell
show cause on Saturday next why an attachment should not issue against him for a contempt
of court in removing the plaintiff out of the jurisdiction of this court, in violation of the order herein before
made."
Served the foregoing Rule of court on
Edward Mitchell on the
1836
Josephine Lecourse
vs
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on a rule to show cause
vs
on a
why an
not
in the above suit for cause why an attactment should not issue against him
for
says. that he the said
not remove the said plaintiff
the
This respondant further says that the said
said suit was
by
defendant who held and
of waiting on the
for a
against this
claiming her freedom - Immediatly after the
service of the
this
for him the respondent and
that he would attend to it accordingly
and this respondant soon after left the
state of
of
to
there weeks- And upon his
that the plaintiff had been taken away
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that said plaintiff had been taken by
said
residence in the state of
at
and that she was taken away during
his absence without the knowledge
This respondant further says that he had
not at the
the said suit any
the services of said plaintiff except for
her said
away the plaintiff at any