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William C. Logan v. R. F. Logan. Cover

 

Box Folder

St. Louis Law Commissioners Court

August Term 1856 No. 103

Crawley, John

In the matter of Habeas Corpus alias John Black

Petition by William C Logan; Crawley arrested under suspicion of being a runaway slave; restrained by George Henley under warrant of John Black, a Justice of the Peace; Henley testified Crawley belonged to Stephen Gardier; case file includes newspaper clipping about sheriff's sale of Crawley as a runaway slave

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “William C. Logan v. R. F. Logan. Cover.” Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Accessed December 17, 2024. https://petitioningforfreedom.unl.edu/documents/item/hc.case.mo.0037.001

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