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Mary Logan Smith v. James A. Felps. Summons

 

County of St. Louis, SS.

The State of Missouri,

To Gerard Doyle Greeting:

You are hereby commanded, that setting aside all manner of excuse and delay, you appear before our Law Commissioner's Court of Saint Louis County, at the City of St. Louis, on the 20 day of Apr 2 PM 1855, then and there to testify and the truth to say in a certain cause pending in said Court wherein in the matter of Adam Marshall upon plaintiff and a writ of Habeas Corpus defendant on the part of the on the part of said Adam Marshall and herein you are in nowise to fail.

Witness, John W. Colvin, the Law Commissioner of St. Louis County, with the seal of said Court hereto affixed at office, in the City of St. Louis, this 20 day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-five.

Jno. W Colvin

Citation

Katrina Jagodinsky, Cory Young, Andrew Varsanyi, Laura Weakly, Karin Dalziel, William Dewey, Erin Chambers, Greg Tunink. “Mary Logan Smith v. James A. Felps. 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.0048.017

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