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You are Commanded that you summon
and appear before the judges of our
Circuit of the said Territory at the Town of
in March next, then and there in our said court before and Judge
aforesaid to answer unto
plea of
damage five hundred dollars and have you then and there
this writ and certify to our said
execute the same-
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Served this writ
February 1819
it to the defend' at the
house of Mrs.
This is an action of
sonment Damage
$500 on which the
clerk will
summons to the
defendant
to the sheriff of
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And the said defendant by
his attorney comes and defends the force
injury when
the said plaintiff, as in his said declaration mentioned
the said Defendant says that the said plaintiff
ought not to have & maintain his aforesaid ac-
tion thereof against him, because he says
that before and at the said him when & in
the said declaration mentioned to wit at the
place & within the jurisdiction aforesaid, the
said plaintiff was & still is the slave of him
the said defendant, wherefore in his own
right, the said defendant, at the said time when
said Plaintiff, so being the slave of him the
said defendant, as he lawfully might do
which am the said
whereof the said plaintiff
complained against him - and this he is
to verify - wherefore he prays Judgement
And the said
ought not to be
from having and maintaining
his aforesaid action by reason of
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of any thing by the said
at the said time when
not the slave of the said defend
ant as the said defendant
his said plea alleged and this
be prays may be inquired of
by the country
ant
Plea --
Replication
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being duly
is brought to try the freedom of the
said
the same principles as the foregoing suit
against the said
witness mentioned by the said
affidavit,
on the trial of this cause, and that he cannot
safely proceed to trial without the said witness
this deponent
whom he can prove same facts which
he expects to be able to
the said witness - And this deponent further
saith that he did not know of the materi-
ality of the said witness untill a short time
and not untill it was too late to process his
witness at this court - This deponent has no
doubt. but that he shall be able to known
the testimony of the said witness at the next
session of this court and further
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You are summoned that all excuses and delays being set aside you
personally be and appear before the judges of the superior court of our terri-
tory aforesaid at our said superior court
to be held in and for the northern circuit at the town of
day of
to testify and the truth to tell in a certain case then and there to be tried, and wherein
a freeman of colour is
said
until duly discharged by the court, and not depart the said court without the leave therof-and
of this fail not at
commanded then and there to make return of this our writ and certify to our said court how he
executes the same.
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On the trial of this cause it was
on the part of the plaintiff that
said plaintiff was earned into the new state of
tween twenty and thirty years age by one
alias
was by then
or four years; that at the end of the said time of three
or four years the said
removed to the now state of
time. The counsel for the defendant then required that court
to instruct the
west territory (now
render the said
of the ordinance of
seven hundred and eighty
the territory of the
the recovery of more than nominal damages in this
action by the plaintiff which instructions the court
refused but charged the Jury that said ordinance did
the satisfaction of the Jury that the said
husband resided there with instant to make that terri-
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tory the house of themselves and of the saids
that the said plaintiff was entitled to damages in this
John of action on the same principles that any other
plaintiff night recover in an action of false imp-
prisonment. To there opinions of the Court
to the Jury, the counsel for the defendant
prayed the Court to sign and seal a bill of exceptions
taken
this tenth day of March in the year one thou-
sand eight hundred and twenty two.
Bill of exceptions
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Boy held in slavery and who is promised
by the Court to sue as a poor person,
by
Court. Complains of
of a plea of
said
on the
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and fifteen
and
unlawfully
in an upon the said
then and there
ill
and then and there imprisoned him
the said
detained him in prison without
any reasonable
whatsover and has ever
kept and
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detain him in prison against the
will of the said
to the Law of this Territory and other
wrongs to the said
there said against the parcel of the
the damage of the said
hundred dollars; and therefore