Writ of Summons issued for Sanford, Russell, and Emerson [Harriet Scott]

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“Writ of Summons Issued for Sanford, Russell, and Emerson [Harriet Scott]”. New Circuit Court Case, July 1847 - February 1848, 1847, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 2, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/108457

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Filing Name: Writ of Summons issued for Sanford, Russell, and Emerson [Harriet Scott]
Description: Writ of Summons by the State of Missouri for Alexander Sandford, Samuel Russell, and Irene Emerson witnessed by clerk John Ruland and executed by St. Louis County Sherriff Samuel Conway and Deputy Joseph C. Brown.
Date: 1847-07-03
Is Part Of: New Circuit Court Case, July 1847 - February 1848
Identifier: dre1847.0032.032
Case ID: ccr1847.0000.036
Source: Missouri State Archives - St. Louis
Rights: Public Domain
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Transcription: > Legal Function: summons

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> Document: Writ of Summons Issued

COUNTY OF ST. LOUIS, SS

THE STATE OF MISSOURI,

To the Sheriff of St. Louis County, GREETING:

WE command you to summon Alexander Sandford, Samuel Russell and Irene Emerson if they be found in your county to appear

before the Judge of our Circuit Court, on the first day of the next term thereof, to be held at the City of St. Louis, within and for the County of St. Louis, on the third Monday of November next, then and there to answer unto Harriet (of color) of a plea of Trespass and false imprisonment

^ to the damage of said plaintiff                 dollars: ^ And have you then there this writ.

WITNESS, JOHN RULAND, Clerk of our said Court, with the seal thereof hereto affixed, at office, in the city of St. Louis, this Third day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty-seven.

Jno. Ruland CLERK

I acknowledge myself bound for all costs that may accrue in the above cause.

WITNESS my hand and seal, at St. Louis, this          day of                 184

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> Legal Function: file record

No 20

November Term 1847

St. Louis Circuit Court

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Harriet of color

vs.

) Summons

Alexander Sandford

Samuel Russell and

Irene Emerson x 30th

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Trespass & false imprisonment

Field & Hall

Attys p. 2[?]

Filed July 3o 1847

Jno. Ruland clk

$ 2 Jury fee

1 writ

3 pd by attys

> Legal Function: certificate of service

Executed this writ in the county of St Louis by offering to read it and the declaration to Samuel Russell on the 6th day of July 1847. And by offering to read it and the declaration to Irene Emerson on the 30th day of August 1847. And by offering to read it and the declaration to Alexander Sanford on the 23r day of October 1847. which they each refused to hear.

Fee $ 3.00                 Samuel Conway Shff

By Joseph C. BrownDpty

> Legal Function: case history

Plf. ordered to elect 18p38 plea 18p48
Discontinued Feb 29th 1848 18p187 Transcript

Sup. Court. reversing & dismissing cause filed Dec 11. 1848

Item sets: Dred Scott Collection; New Circuit Court Case, July 1847 - February 1848