Order allowing Bill of Exceptions [Harriet Scott] withdrawn

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“Order Allowing Bill of Exceptions [Harriet Scott] Withdrawn”. Post-Verdict Briefing After First Trial, 1847, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 3, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/108443

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Filing Name: Order allowing Bill of Exceptions [Harriet Scott] withdrawn
Description: Order allowing Bill of Exceptions [Harriet Scott] for an appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court, signed by Alexander Hamilton, filed December 4, 1847 , withdrawn Decmeber 11, 1847
Date: 1847-12-04
Is Part Of: Post-Verdict Briefing after First Trial
Identifier: dre1847.0042.042
Case ID: ccr1847.0000.014
Source: Missouri State Archives - St. Louis
Rights: Public Domain
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Transcription: > Legal Function: bill of exceptions

^ Withdrawn 11th Decr 1847 ^

Harriet of color

vs.

Irene Emmerson

Be it remembered that on the 30th day of June in the year 1847 the plaintiff by her attorney filed a motion accompanied with reasons to set aside the verdict of the Jury in the cause and that a new trial be granted her, and which motion and reasons are in the words and figures following to wit (here set out the motion) and that on the 1st day of July thereafter the plaintiff by her Attorney by leave of the Court filed an additional reason in support of her motion for a new trial, and which additional reason is in the words and figures following to wit (here set out the additional reason) and that on the twenty fourth day of July following there was filed an affidavit in said cause purporting by to be made by ~~Harriet~~ ^ Dred Scott ^ the plaintiff in another suit pending ^ in said Court ^ in the same facts ^ against the same defendant ^ and which affidavit and the facts therein stated were by consent of Counsel, considered as applicable to the case of Harriet vs. Emerson & to be considered by the Court as filed by Harriet and sworn to by her in support of her motion for a new trial (here set out the affidavit) and that on the following and succeeding Term of the Court to wit at the November Term of the year 1847 on the day of November in said last mentioned year the said motion came on[?] to be heard & upon argument of Counsel was by the Court adjudged to be sustained and a new trial was granted to said plaintiff in said cause to which decision

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> Document: Defendant's Bill of Exceptions for an Appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court (Harriet Scott)

of the Court sustaining said motion and granting a new trial in the cause the defendant by her Counsel excepted, and now except, and to preserve the evidence of which the Counsel for the defendant asks that this his bill of Exceptions may be signed sealed and made a part of the Record all which is done accordingly this [blank space] day of December 1847

A. Hamilton

> Legal Function: file record

Harriet of color

vs.

Irene Emmerson

Bill of Exceptions

Item sets: Dred Scott Collection; Post-Verdict Briefing after First Trial