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            <title>Mary Ann, alias Julia, an infant of color, by and through her next friend, James Loper v. Robert Duncan</title>
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            <date type="filing" when="1834-09-27">September 27, 1834</date>
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            <party role="plaintiff">Mary Ann (alias Julia)</party>
            <party role="defendant">Duncan, Robert</party>
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            <causeAction type="civil">Assault</causeAction>
            <causeAction type="civil">Battery</causeAction>
            <causeAction type="civil">False Imprisonment</causeAction>
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            <court type="state">St. Louis Circuit Court</court>
            <judge>Lawless, Luke E.</judge>
            <clerk>Gamble, Archibald</clerk>
            <sheriff>Brotherton, J.</sheriff>
            <sheriff type="deputy">Hammond, G.</sheriff>
            <sheriff type="deputy">Brotherton, M.</sheriff>
            <justiceOfPeace>Primm, Wilson</justiceOfPeace>
            <nextFriend>Loper, James</nextFriend>
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            <attorney for="defendant">Harris, L.</attorney>
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                  <abbr>No.</abbr>46
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               <author role="judge">Lawless, Luke E.</author> 
               <author role="plaintiff">Mary Ann</author>
               <author role="nextfriend">Loper, James</author>
               <author role="defendant">Duncan, Robert</author>
               <author role="attorney">Gamble, Hamilton R.</author>
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               <author role="plaintiff">Mary Ann</author>
               <author role="nextfriend">Loper, James</author>
               <author role="defendant">Duncan, Robert</author>
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               <author role="plaintiff">Mary Ann</author>
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               <author role="defendant">Duncan, Robert</author>
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               <author role="nextfriend">Loper, James</author>
               <author role="defendant">Duncan, Robert</author>
               <author role="sheriff">Brotherton, J.</author>
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                           <orig>State of Missouri</orig>
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                        <orig>Mary Ann</orig>
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                        <orig>St. Louis</orig>
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                           <orig>L.E</orig>
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I <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                        <orig>Archibald Gamble</orig>
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