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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit Court historical records project.
The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
You are commanded that you summon to her Butler that he be and
appear before the Judges of our superior Court of our territory of
our said superior court to be
the said Territory at the
March next, then and there in our said Court before our Judges of
our said Court to answer unto
in
damage five hundred dollars and have
this writ and certify to our said court how
the same—
Served this writ
January 1819
It to the defendant at
His place of residence
Point
Ship
D shff
Service - $.80
Travel 110 ms 5.50
6.30
Summons
vs
John Butter
risonment
To the
an
and false
damage $ 5.00
On which
To the
County.
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The original document is part of the Missouri State Archives St Louis Circuit Court collection.
And the said Defendant
by
and
and as to the
ill treating, and
ing in
said
dant saith that the said Plaintiff ought
not to have or maintain her aforesaid
when
ed, to writ, at the place of within the
Jurisdiction aforesaid, the said Plaintiff
was and
Defendant - wherefore the said Defendant
at the said time when he
imprison and
Plaintiff so being the slave of him the
said Defendant as
and this he is ready to verify - wherefore
And the said
ought not to be
from having and maintaining her
aforesaid action by reason of any thing
by the said John Butter above in his
at the said time when
not the slave of the said John
in manner and form as he has
above in his said plea
and this she prays many be
enquired of by the
the defendant
John Butter
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On the trial of this cause it was proved
on the part of the plaintiff that are
said plaintiff was carried into the now state of
between twenty and thirty years years since by one
where the said
ring the space of three or four years; that at the end of
the said time of three or four years, the said
her said husband removed to the new
in slavery to the present time. The counsel for the de
fendant then required the Court to instruct the
that a residence in the
gress of the year
eighty seven
struction the Court refused, but charged the
that said ordinance did in law set the said
free if it should appear to the satisfaction of the
there with intent to make that territory the home of
themselves and of the said
counsel for the defendant excepted and prayed the
Court to sign and seal a
which is done accordingly in open Court this
vs
John Butter
Bill of exceptions
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a free girl held in Slavery and who is
permitted by the court to sue as a
poor person by
Geyer his attornies assigned by the court
as counsel for the said
of John Butler of a plea of Trespass
for that the said John Butter heretofore
to writ on the
the year of our Lord one Thousand
eight hundred and fifteen
and
unlawfully an
in and
then and there beat bruised and ill
treated her the said
then and there imprisoned her
the said
detained her in prisoned without
any reasonable or probable cause
and still doth keep and detain
her in prison against the will of the
said
of this Territory. and other ways to the
said
against the peace of the
age of the Said
dollars; and therefore she sues & Co.