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            <title> Sarah v. Michael Halton</title>
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            <date type="filing" when="1818-12-14">December 14, 1818</date>
            <date type="term" when="1818-11">November Term, 1818</date>
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            <caseTitle> Sarah v. Michael Halton</caseTitle>
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            <date type="term" when="1818-11">November Term, 1818</date>
            <party role="plaintiff">Sarah</party>
            <party role="defendant">Halton, Michael</party>
            <causeAction type="civil">Trespass</causeAction>
            <causeAction type="civil">Assault and Battery</causeAction>
            <causeAction type="civil">False Imprisonment</causeAction>
            <caseNo>191</caseNo>
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            <court type="territorial">Missouri Superior Court, Northern Circuit</court>
            <court type="territorial">St. Louis Circuit Court</court>
            <judge type="presiding">Beat, Silas</judge>
            <judge type="trial">Tucker, Nathaniel B.</judge>
            <clerk>Turner, J. C.</clerk>
            <clerk>Gamble, Archibald</clerk>
            <sheriff/>
            <sheriff type="deputy">Walker, J. K.</sheriff>
            <attorney for="plaintiff">Barton, J.</attorney>
            <attorney for="plaintiff">Geyer, Henry S.</attorney>
            <attorney for="defendant">Pettibone</attorney>
            <attorney for="defendant">Spalding</attorney>
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            <relatedCase>1018</relatedCase>
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               <title>Summons of Michael Halton</title>
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               <legalTitle>Summons of Michael Halton</legalTitle>
               <author role="judge">Beat, Silas</author>   
               <author role="clerk">Turner, J. C.</author>
               <author role="attorney">Barton, J.</author>
               <author role="attorney">Geyer, Henry S.</author>
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                           <orig>Missouri</orig>
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                           <orig>United States</orig>
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                           <orig>America</orig>
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                           <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                     </placeName> Geeting-</salute>
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                     <choice>
                        
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                        <orig>Missouri</orig>
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                        <orig>Superior Court</orig>
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                        <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                     <supplied>and false imprisonment</supplied>
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                  <lb/> to her damage five hundred dollars-<unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>and</supplied>
                  </unclear> have you then and<lb/> there <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>this</supplied>
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                     <date when="1818-12-14">fourteenth day of december in the year of our <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                        <supplied>Independence</supplied>
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                        <supplied>J C <persName>
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                  <abbr>No</abbr> 
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> 191<lb/> 
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Summons
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                        <orig>Sarah</orig>
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                  <date when="1819-03-20">March 20th 1819</date>
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                     <lb/> 
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               <p>now costs 50 <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>
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               <p>travel 100ms-5.50</p>
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filed <date when="1879-04-26">April 26th 1879</date> 
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               <author role="attorney">Pettibone, R.</author>   
               <author role="attorney">Barton, J.</author>
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                        <orig>Sarah</orig>
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                        <orig>Michael Halton</orig>
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                        <orig>Sarah</orig>
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               <author role="judge">Tucker, Nathaniel B.</author>
               <author role="attorney">Pettibone, R.</author> 
               <author role="attorney">Spalding</author>
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