Petition of False Imprisonment [Harriet Scott]

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“Petition of False Imprisonment [Harriet Scott]”. First Circuit Court Trial, 1846-1847, 1846, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 3, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/108394

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Filing Name: Petition of False Imprisonment [Harriet Scott]
Description: Petition of False Imprisonment [Harriet Scott]
Date: 1846-04-06
Court Term: November 1847
Is Part Of: First Circuit Court Trial, 1846-1847
Identifier: dre1846.0004.004
Case ID: ccr1846.0000.038
Source: Missouri State Archives - St. Louis
Rights: Public Domain
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> Document: Petition of False Imprisonment for Harriet Scott

State of Missouri Circuit Court of
St. Louis County To St. Louis County. ~~April~~ ^ November ^ Term
1846

Harriet, a woman of Color, complains of Irene Emerson of a plea for that the said defendant on the fourth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and forty six, with force and arms etc., made an assault upon the said plaintiff, to wit at St. Louis in the County aforesaid, and then and there beat, bruised and ill treated her, the said plaintiff and kept and detained her in prison there, without any reasonable or probable cause whatsoever, for a long time to wit, for the space of twelve hours, there next following, contrary to the laws of the said state, and the will of said plaintiff — And the said plaintiff avers, that before and at the time of the committing of the said grievances she was and still is a free person and that the said defendant held and still holds her in Slavery: To the plaintiffs damage ten dollars and therefore she brings suit etc.

F. B. Murdoch

~~[illegible]~~ ^ Plff ^ Atty

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St. Louis Cir. Court

~~April~~ ^ November ^ Term 1846.

Harriet (of Color)

v.

Irene Emerson

Action in false

Imprisonment

Damags $ 10.

Item sets: Dred Scott Collection; First Circuit Court Trial, 1846-1847