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John Plackett and May Plackett v. Missouri. Summons

 

County of St. Louis, SCT.

State of Missouri

To the Sheriff of SLouis County.... Greeting:

You are hereby commanded to summon Bernard Farror, Wm C Lane, John Finney, Elihu H Shepperd, George Pearce, Asa Witgens, Louis Fouche, Hannah Lee & William Finney, Jabez Warner

that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, he be and appear in proper person before the Judge of our Circuit Court, at 3 O’clock of this day at the City of St. Louis, then and there to testify and the truth to say in a certain matter of controversy, now pending in our said court wherein upon Habeas Corpus obtained by Jno Placket plaintiff and May his wife ____________ defendant, on the part of the ________________ and have you then there this writ.

Witness, Archibald Gamble, Clerk of our said Circuit Court, at the City of St. Louis, this 21st day of Decr in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five

A Gamble Clerk, C.C.

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “John Plackett and May Plackett v. Missouri. Summons.” 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.0026.017

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