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Dolly vs John Young. Civil

 

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The State of Missouri

To the Sheriff of St. Louis County Greeting

We command you to summon John Young that he be and appear before the Judge of our Circuit Court at the next term thereof to be held at the city of St Louis within and for the County of St Louis on the fourth Monday of July next then and there to answer unto Dolly a woman of color of a plea of tresspass, assault & battery & false imprisonment to the damages of said plaintiff of five hundred dollars. And hand you then there this writ

Witness Archibald Gamble Clerk of our said Court at Offices this first day of April 1828

Archibald Gamble Clerk

She sues &c[?]

Strother & Evans for plff

Executed this writ on John Young April 12th 1828 in the City of St. Louis by reading the same to him

R. Simpson Sheriff
By L. P. Simonds Dpy Sheriff

Service $1.00

No 7 July Term 1828
St Louis Circuit Court

Dolly
vs
John Young

This is an action of tresspass assault & Battery & Flase Imprisionment

Strother & Evans [?]

filed April 1st 1828
A Gamble Clerk

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Dolly vs John Young. Civil.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed November 21, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.mo.0017.007

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