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            <title>Webster v. George Druillard</title>
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            <date type="filing" when="1809-06-05">June 05, 1809</date>
            <date type="term" when="1809-06">June Term 1809</date>
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            <caseTitle>Webster v. George Druillard</caseTitle>
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            <date type="term" when="1809-06">June Term 1809</date>
            <party role="plaintiff">Webster</party>
            <party role="defendant">Druillard, George</party>
            <causeAction type="civil">Trespass</causeAction>
            <caseNo/>
            <court type="state">St. Louis County Court</court>  
            <clerk>Riddick, Thomas</clerk> 
            <clerk/> 
            <sheriff/>  
            <sheriff type="deputy"/>    
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            <attorney for="plaintiff">Easton, R.</attorney>
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            <attorney for="defendant"/>
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               <title>Complaint</title>
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               <author role="clerk">Easton, Rufus</author>         
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                     <placeName>
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                           <orig>S Louis</orig>
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                           <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                        <orig>S. Louis</orig>
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                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>S. Louis</orig>
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                     <supplied>year</supplied>
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                        <orig>S Louis</orig>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> demand<lb/> by reason whereof and by force of the statute in <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                  <lb/> to wit-on the same day and year at the places and within<lb/> the jurisdiction last aforesaid was indebted to the said plain-<lb/>tiff in the sum of one hundred <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                  <lb/> and request and for other money before that time had and<lb/> received by the said defendant to the <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                  <lb/> thereof aforesaid to Writ-and the same day and year at the<lb/> places and within the jurisdiction last aforesaid under<lb/> took and there then faithfully promised the said plaintiff<lb/> to pay him said sum of money <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                     <supplied>yet</supplied>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> after requested has not paid the several sums of<lb/> money <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                     <supplied>requested</supplied>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/> refused and still refuse to the said plaintiff<lb/> his damage of One hundred and twenty five<lb/> dollars. - - - - - - - - -- -- <lb/> and therefore he bring his writ <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>
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                           <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                     </placeName> Com. pleas<lb/> 
                     <date when="1809-07">July 1809</date>
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                  <persName>
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                        <orig>Webster</orig>
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                  <lb/> 
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                  <lb/> 
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>
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               <p>The clerk will issue a<lb/> 
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                     <persName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>R</orig>
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                     </persName>. <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>
                     <supplied>
                        <persName>
                           <choice>
                              
                              <orig>Easton</orig>
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                  <lb/> 
                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                  <date when="1809-06-05">5 June 1809</date>
                  <lb/> Received two dollars <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>-<lb/> 
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                           <persName>
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                                 <orig>Thoff Riddick</orig>
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               <p>This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit
                    Court historical records project.</p>
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               <legalTitle>Writ of Habeus Corpus</legalTitle>        
               <author role="clerk">Riddick, Thoff</author>         
               <court>St. Louis County Court</court>
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                     <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                        <supplied>Territory</supplied>
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                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>Louisiana</orig>
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                     <lb/> District of <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>St Louis</orig>
                        </choice>
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                  <salute>The <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>United States</orig>
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                     </placeName> of <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>America</orig>
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                     </placeName>
                     <lb/> sheriff of the district of <placeName>
                        <choice>
                           
                           <orig>St Louis</orig>
                        </choice>
                     </placeName>
                     <lb/> Greeting.</salute>
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                        <orig>George</orig>
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                  <persName>
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                        <orig>Webster</orig>
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                        <supplied>
                           <persName>
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                                 <orig>Thoff Riddick</orig>
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                     <lb/> 
                     <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
                        <supplied>clk</supplied>
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Witness the <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                              <orig>Silas Bent</orig>
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                        <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                  <lb/> of June in the year of our <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                  <lb/> thousand eight hundred &amp; nine<lb/> of the independence of the <placeName>
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                        <orig>United</orig>
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                  <lb/> 
                  <placeName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>States</orig>
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                  </placeName> the thirty third.<lb/> 
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                        <supplied>
                           <persName>
                              <choice>
                                 
                                 <orig>Thoff Riddick</orig>
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                           </persName> Clk</supplied>
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                     <supplied>bail bond</supplied>
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                  <persName>
                     <choice>
                        
                        <orig>Connor</orig>
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                  </persName>, <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">Shrf</unclear>.</p>
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                     <row>
                        <cell>service</cell> 
                        <cell>$1.</cell>
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                     <row>
                        <cell>mileage</cell> 
                        <cell>.10</cell>
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                           <unclear rend="written" unit="chars"/>
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                        <cell>.50</cell>
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                     <row>
                        <cell/> 
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               <title>Notice of Discontinuing the Suit</title>
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               <p>This electronic document is published as part of the St Louis Circuit
                    Court historical records project.</p>
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               <legalTitle>Notice of Discontinuing the Suit</legalTitle>        
               <author role="clerk">Riddick, Thomas</author>         
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                  <abbr>No</abbr> 26<lb/> 
                  <date when="1809-07">July Term 1809</date>
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                  <persName>
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                        <orig>Webster</orig>
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                        <orig>George</orig>
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               <p>filed <date when="1809-06-24">24th June 1809</date>
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                  <unclear rend="written" unit="chars">
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                           <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                        <orig>St Louis</orig>
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                  <date when="1809-06-24">24th June 1809</date>—</p>
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                              <orig>Riddick</orig>
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