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            <title>Jim Brown, by and through his next friend, Jenny Brown vs. William Head</title>
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            <date type="term" when="1844-11">November 1844</date>
            <date type="filing" when="1844-10-14">November 14, 1844</date>
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            <date type="term" when="1844-11">November 1844</date>
            <date type="filing" when="1844-10-14">November 14, 1844</date>
            <party role="plaintiff">Brown, Jim</party>
            <party role="defendant">Head, William</party>
            <causeAction type="civil">Trespass</causeAction>
            <causeAction type="civil">False Imprisonment</causeAction>
            <causeAction type="civil">Assault</causeAction>
            <causeAction type="civil">Battery</causeAction>
            <caseNo>229</caseNo>
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            <court type="state">St. Louis Circuit Court</court>
            <judge type="presiding">Krum, John M.</judge>
            <clerk>Ruland, John</clerk>
            <sheriff>Milburn, William</sheriff>
            <sheriff type="deputy">Dowling, R.</sheriff> 
            <attorney for="plaintiff">Smith, Elias B.</attorney>
            <attorney for="defendant">Lord, Leslie</attorney>
            <nextFriend>Brown, Jenny</nextFriend>
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               <author role="attorney">Smith, Elias B.</author>          
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                                 <orig>Elias</orig>
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                                 <orig>B Smith</orig>
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                              <orig>Circut Court</orig>
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                     <supplied>Your petitioner respectfully states to <supplied rend="strikethrough">the</supplied> 
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                              <orig>Martin</orig>
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                              <orig>Missiouri</orig>
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                     <supplied>Your petitioner therefore prays your <lb/> Honor to <unclear/>
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                        <unclear/> duly <unclear/>
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                              <orig>James J</orig>
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                              <orig>Jenny</orig>
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                  <signed>X</signed> 
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                     <supplied>mark</supplied>
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                        <orig>Brown</orig>
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                                 <orig>Elias</orig>
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                                 <orig>B Smith</orig>
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                              <orig>Jim</orig>
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                                 <orig>John</orig>
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                           <orig>M</orig>
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                     <date when="1844-11">
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               <author role="sheriff">Milburn, William</author>  
               <author role="deputy">Dowling, R.</author>    
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                     <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>County of St. Louis</orig>
                        </choice>
                     </placeName>,</dateline> 
                  <abbr>ss.</abbr>
                  <dateline>The State Of <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Missouri</orig>
                        </choice>
                     </placeName>,</dateline>
                  <salute>To the Sheriff of St. Louis County—Greeting:</salute>
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               <p>We command you to <seg rend="form-full-in">Summon <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>William</orig>
                        </choice>
                     </persName> Head<lb/> if he be found in your County that he be and appear <unclear rend="strikethrough" unit="chars">
                        <supplied>before</supplied>
                     </unclear>
                  </seg> before the Judge of our <orgName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Circuit Court</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </orgName>, on the first day of the next term thereof, to be<lb/> held at the <placeName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>City of St. Louis</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </placeName>, within and for the county of <placeName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>St. Louis</orig>
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                        <supplied>
                           <persName>
                              <choice>
                                 
                                 <orig>Jim</orig>
                              </choice>
                           </persName>
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                     <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Brown</orig>
                        </choice>
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                        <supplied>sues</supplied>
                     </unclear> by his <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                        <supplied>next</supplied>
                     </unclear> friend<lb/> 
                     <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Jenny Brown</orig>
                        </choice>
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                        <supplied>imprisonment</supplied>
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                  <lb/> to the damage of said plaintiff <seg rend="form-full-in">Five hundred</seg>
                  <lb/> dollars: And have you then there this writ.</p>
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               <closer>Witness, <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>John Ruland</orig>
                     </choice>
                  </persName>, Clerk of our said Court,<lb/> with the seal thereof hereto affixed, at office, in the<lb/> city of <placeName>
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                        <orig>St. Louis</orig>
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                     <seg rend="form-full-in">24th</seg> day of<lb/> 
                     <seg rend="form-full-in">October</seg> in the year of our Lord eighteen<lb/> hundred and forty <seg rend="form-full-in">four</seg>
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                     <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>John Ruland</orig>
                        </choice>
                     </persName>
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               <p>I acknowledge myself bound for all costs that may accrue in the above cause. Witness my hand and seal, at <placeName>
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                        <orig>St. Louis</orig>
                     </choice>
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               <p>Executed this writ in the <placeName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>County of St. Louis</orig>
                     </choice>
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                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>William</orig>
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                  </persName> Head the <sic>deffendant</sic> and<lb/> also by reading to Said <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>William</orig>
                     </choice>
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                     <supplied>endorsed</supplied>
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                     <supplied>Fee $1.50</supplied>
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                  <lb/>
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                     <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>William</orig>
                        </choice>
                     </persName> 
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                        <supplied>
                           <persName>
                              <choice>
                                 
                                 <orig>Milburn</orig>
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                  <signed>Sheriff</signed>
By <signed>
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                        <supplied>
                           <persName>
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                                 <orig>R Dowling</orig>
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                  <abbr>No</abbr> 229
<dateline>
                     <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>St. Louis Circuit Court</orig>
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                     <date when="1844-11">November Term 1844</date>
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                        <persName>
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                              <orig>Jim</orig>
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                        <orig>Brown</orig>
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                        <persName>
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                              <orig>Jenny</orig>
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                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Brown</orig>
                     </choice>
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                     <supplied>summons</supplied>
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                        <orig>William</orig>
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                     <supplied>Trespass &amp;</supplied>
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                     <supplied>$</supplied>
                  </unclear> 500<lb/>
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                     <supplied>E <persName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>B Smith</orig>
                           </choice>
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                  <lb/> Filed <date when="1844-10-24">
                     <abbr>Oct</abbr> 24th 1844</date>
                  <lb/> 
                  <signed>
                     <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>John Ruland</orig>
                        </choice>
                     </persName> Clerk</signed>
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               <p>It is ordered that the <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>petitioner</supplied>
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                     <supplied>sue</supplied>
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                     <supplied>poor</supplied>
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                     <supplied>
                        <persName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>Elias</orig>
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                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>B Smith</orig>
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                     <supplied>assigned</supplied>
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                     <supplied>ordered</supplied>
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                  <lb/> that <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>occasion</supplied>
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               <closer>Free ✓ (138)</closer>
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               <p>plea filed <ref target="TBD">15p 290</ref> 
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                     <supplied>trespass feby </supplied>
                  </unclear> 2 <date when="1846">1846</date> 
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                     <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                        <supplied>17 p 72</supplied>
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               <p>This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit
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               <author role="attorney">Lord, Leslie</author>   
               <author role="clerk">Ruland, John</author>   
               <court>St. Louis Circuit Court</court>
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                              <orig>Jim</orig>
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                        <orig>William</orig>
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                           <orig>St. Louis Circuit Court</orig>
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                        <abbr>Nov</abbr>. term 1844.</date>
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                        <orig>William</orig>
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                                 <orig>Leslie</orig>
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                  <abbr>Deft.</abbr>
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                              <orig>Jim Brown</orig>
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                        <orig>William</orig>
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                                 <orig>Leslie</orig>
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                           <orig>John Ruland</orig>
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