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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.
You are Commanded that you
he be and
Territory of
the said Territory for the Northern Circuit of the said Territory at
the town of
them and there in our said court before our Judges after and to
aforesaid to
of trespass
damage five hundred dollars and have you then and there
this writ and certify to our said court how you
same
Served this writ
Jany 1819
the same to the defend
ant at his own house
Bonhomme Township
service $ .80
travel 60ms 3.00
3.80
Sub
summons
vs
false imp-
risonment
To the clerk of the
superior court of 6.
This is an
trespass & false impri
sonment damages $5.00
on which you will
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And the said Defendant by
his Attorney comes of defends the wrong
of injury when
beating
and
Plaintiff as in her said
tioned the said Defendant says, that the said
Plaintiff ought not to have
cause he says that before and at the said
time when
mentioned, to writ,
the
was and still is the
Defendendant - wherefore the said Defendant
at the said time when
beat, imprison and detain in prison the
said Plaintiff, so being the
him the said Defendant, as he lawfully
might
supposed
hath
him, and this he is ready to verify - wherefore
He
And the said
ving and maintaining her
action against the
By reason of any thing by him above
in his said
be she saith that at the said time
When
mentioned she was not the
of the said
and from as he has above in
his said
and this she
quired of by the County. And
the said
ads
plea
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St Louis County
in the above entitled cause
being
is brought to try the freedom of the
Plaintiff and
principles as the suits against
Prewitt - whose affidavit for a contin-
uance is hereunto annexed. That
the said witness mentioned by the
said
him on the trial of this cause; and
that
trial with out his
deponent
witness by whom he can
the same faith that he
and this
not know that the said witness
the said faith, which he
by him untill a short time since, and
untill it was too late to
his attendance at this term. This deponent
has been told by creditable
once
Court (where the
Plaintiff of the said
children
that they belonged to the children of the
said
the property of the said
This deponent has no
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shall be able to procure the testimo
ny of the said witness at the next
Term of this Court - and further
That this application is not made
for delay but that substantial
justice may be done. And further
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In the trial of this cause it
Was proved on the part of the plaintiff that between
twenty and thirty years ago
and that are
was carried into the now state
was there held in slavery during the space of three
or four years: that at the end of the said time
of three or four years the said
Said husband removed to the now state of
for years afterwards claimed and held as their
slave there. The counsel for the defendant then re-
quired the Court to
In the then North
as above mentioned did not render the said
free under and in virtue of the ordinance of
Congress of the year
and eighty seven
territory of the
But changed the jury that said
did in law set the said
appear to the satisfaction of the
intent to make that territory the home of
themselves and of the said
said plaintiff was entitled to damages in this
form of action on the same principles
prayed and prayed the court to sign and seal
a bill of exceptions taken
done accordingly in open court this
day of march in the year of our Lord one
thoudsand eight hundred and twenty two.
vs
Bill of exceptions
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is permitted by the court to sue as
a poor person by
by the said court. complains of
that the said
fore to writ on the
ary in the
thousand eight hundred and
fifteen,
at the county aforesaid
and upon the said
then and there beat bruised and
ill treated her the said
and then and there imprisoned
her the said
and detained her in prison with
out any reasonable or probable
cause
and detain her in prison against
the will of the said
contrary to the Laws of this
and other wrongs to the said
then and there did against the
peace of the
the said
dollars and therefore she brings
suit