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            <date type="filing" when="1841-06-26">June 26, 1841</date>
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            <party role="plaintiff">Brown, Squire</party>
            <party role="defendant">Anderson, William C.</party>
            <causeAction type="civil">Trespass</causeAction>
            <causeAction type="civil">False Imprisonment</causeAction>
            <causeAction type="civil">Assault</causeAction>
            <causeAction type="civil">Battery</causeAction>
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            <judge type="presiding">Mullanphy, Bryan</judge>
            <justiceOfPeace>Kretschmar</justiceOfPeace>
            <clerk>Ruland, John</clerk>
            <sheriff>Brotherton, Marshall</sheriff>
            <sheriff>Milburn, Marshall</sheriff>
            <sheriff type="deputy">Lacy, Benjamin</sheriff>
            <sheriff type="deputy">Murphy, Daniel</sheriff>
            <sheriff type="deputy">Decker, E. W.</sheriff>
            <witness>Moore, William</witness>
            <witness>Quinn, Patrick</witness>
            <witness>Glenn, Thomas</witness>
            <witness>Sternley, John</witness>
            <witness>Wiggins, William</witness>
            <witness>Bamber, Thomas</witness>
            <witness>Anderson, William C. Jr.</witness>
            <witness>Anderson, Eli</witness>
            <witness>Wolfolk, J. J.</witness>
            <witness>Shaw, Hiram</witness>
            <witness>Wirt, Peter</witness>
            <witness>Denny, William</witness>
            <witness>Conn, Joseph H.</witness>
            <attorney for="plaintiff">Davis, John</attorney>
            <attorney for="plaintiff">Dayton, Benjamin B.</attorney>
            <attorney for="defendant">Blair, M.</attorney>
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                        <orig>William</orig>
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               <author role="sheriff">Brotherton, Marshall</author>
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                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Missouri</orig>
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                        <orig>Circuit Court</orig>
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                        <orig>City of St. Louis</orig>
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                        <orig>St. Louis</orig>
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                        <orig>John Ruland</orig>
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               <p> for freedom. In testimony whereof witness my hand <lb/>this <date when="1841-06-28">28 June 1841</date>.</p>
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