John Baptiste Prevert present by his attorney complains of Manuel Lisa in a plea of trespass on the case for that whereas on the fifteenth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen in the county of St Louis at the town of St Louis the said John was possessed of in his own right the following goods and chattels to wit thirty two beaver skins of the value of four dollors each of six racoon skins of the value of fifty cents each and of eight buffaloe Robes of the value of five dollars each and the said John being so possessed as aforesaid at the time and place aforesaid afterwards to wit on the same day and year aforesaid casually lost the aforesaid goods and chattels out of his possession and the said Manuel afterwards to wit on the same day and year aforesaid at the place afore said got and came to the possession of the same goods and chattels by finding and the said Manuel knowing the premises and that the said goods & chattels do of right belong to the said John but intending to cheat the said John hath hitherto wholly failed and refused to deliver the same to the said John altho often thereto afterwards requested by the said John to wit on the twentieth day of June in the year aforesaid But the said Manuel did afterwards to wit on the day last aforesaid the aforesaid goods & chattels to his own uses and benefit wherefor the said John says he is injured and has sustained one hundred and eighty dollars damage

and whereas the said John on the first day of January in the year aforesaid was possessed of in his own right of other the following goods and chattels at a place called the in the county of St Louis one brown horse gelding of the value of seventy dollors (and