Brunetta Barnes, by and through her next friend, Peter Charleville v. Barry Meachum This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit Court historical records project.

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 September 01, 1840 September Term 1840

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 Brunetta Barnes, by and through her next friend, Peter Charleville v. Barry Meachum September 01, 1840 September Term 1840 Barnes, Brunetta Meachum, Barry False Imprisonment 123 St. Louis County Court Rudland, John Brotherton, Marshall Lawless, Luke E Charleville, Peter Thos. J unknown MP added legal description KT removed comment tags, etc. CM performed final review of legal encoding APJ checked vertical and horizontal rends </titleStmt> <publicationStmt> <p>This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit Court historical records project.</p> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <p>The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.</p> </sourceDesc> </fileDesc> <profileDesc/> </teiHeader> <text> <body rend="handwritten"> <div1 legalFunction="Certificate of Filing" rend="vertical"> <pb facs="6956_001.tif" n="001"/> <opener> <abbr>No</abbr> 123 <lb/> <dateline> <placeName> <choice> <orig>St. Louis Circuit Court</orig> </choice> </placeName> <lb/> <date when="1840-07">July Term 1840</date>.</dateline> <lb/> </opener> <head rend="bracketed"> <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> Barnes (by next <lb/>friend) <lb/> <abbr>vs</abbr> <lb/>Barry <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> </head> <p> <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> </p> <p>Petition <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> </p> <closer>Filed in open court <date when="1840-09-01"> <abbr>Sept:</abbr> 1 1840</date>. <lb/> <signed> <persName> <choice> <orig>Jn. Ruland</orig> </choice> </persName> Clerk</signed> <lb/> <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> <lb/> </closer> </div1> <div1 rend="horizontal"> <pb facs="6956_001.tif" n="001"/> <p> <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> of petitioner granted - and she <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> to the case of <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> <ref target="TBD"> Bk 11 <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">p</unclear> 225</ref> </p> </div1> <div1> <pb facs="6956_002.tif" n="002"/> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI> <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" > <teiHeader> <fileDesc> <titleStmt> <title>Complaint

This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit Court historical records project.

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 Complaint Thos. J St. Louis County Court State of Missouri County of St Louis ss. In St Louis Circuit Court , Nov Term 1840 Barner, by Peter Chareville her next friend false imprisonment action of vs Beny Meachum

Petition to Meachum , as prayed.

To the honourable Luke E Lawless Judge of the Saint Louis Circuit Court

The humble petition of Brunetta Barnes by Peter Charleville her next friend, resepectfully showeth to your honour. That the applied for and obtained purmission from your honour heretofore to bring an action of and false imprisonment against Beny Meachum who unlawfully detains her in slavery. and that the has in of that permission instituted said against said Meachum , That she is a female of the age of fifteen year as nearly as she can state. That said Meachum is in the of sending her to sell and deliver milk on board the several lying at St Louis . That she is daily sent there her with milk, and that the hour at which she is sent is at daybreak in the morning. long before it is fully light That she is exposed on these occasions to insults of the character from various members of the of different . That said Meachum holds in his service other persons (among them her ) who areis more fit than herself for such . That she has to said Meachum through Peter Charleville , a written request in the most respectful language, the she suffers from the employment aforesaid, and the discontinance of such employment in future and that said Meachum has continued to send her as before to said steamboats, and her declared his determination to pay no regard to her request

Your petitioner respectfully shows to your honour that the hardship of which she complains is of a nature to her, and that this application to your honour for relief is not made in a of or through the wish to give annoyance or occasion in convenience to said Meachum because she is at present exposed to insult, which the said Meachum space her without any to himself-

In consideration whereof she your petitioner humbly that your honour may make an order to the effect that the said Meachum shall discontinue sending her on board the steamboats aforesaid for the aforesaid or upon any other protect whatsoever and that your honour will grant to her & further relief as the case may in your honours action seem to require and in duty bound your petitioner shall ever pray

Thos J for Petition in the case of Barner, by Peter Charleville her next friend vs Beny Meachum

& false imprisonment

 Writ

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 Writ Ruland, John St. Louis County Court County of St Louis Ss The State of Missouri To the Sheriff of the County of St Louis greeting.

Whereas it having represented to our Honorable Circuit Court now in Session in the City of St Louis by the petition of Barnes a female of about the age of fifteen years who has been heretofore permitted to bring suit (by her next friend, Peter ) against Berry that she is subjected by the said to gross insults, as in her petition stated. You are therefore commanded to bring the said Barness into our said court and also to summon the said Berry that he be and appear before our said court on Wednesday the second day of September instant at ten o'clock A. M. and there to answer the Petition ofsaid Brunrtta Barnes hereto - and have you then and there this writ your return how you shall execute the same.

Witness John Ruland , Clerk of our said Court at office in the City of St Louis this first day of September in the year four Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty. Jn. Ruland Clerk

Excuted this writ and have the body of the within Barnes in court at the time and placeed by this writ I am commanded and for the by reasing this writ and petition to the within named Berry

= St Louis September 2nd 1840 Sheriff $ 2.00