Writ of attachment for John Carter, Stewart Carter

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Filing Name: Writ of attachment for John Carter, Stewart Carter
Description: Writ of attachment for John Carter, Stewart Carter; issued December 20, 1849
Date: 1849-12-20
Court Term: November 1849
Is Part Of: Second Circuit Court Trial, 1849-1850
Identifier: dre1849.0067.068
Case ID: ccr1849.0000.066
Source: Missouri State Archives - St. Louis
Rights: Public Domain
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Transcription: > Legal Function: attachment

STATE OF MISSOURI, SCT.

COUNTY OF ST. LOUIS,

To the Sheriff of St. Louis County, GREETING:

WE command you to attach, John T. Carter, Stuart Carter

by their bodies and them safely keep, so that you have their bodies before

the Judge of our Circuit Court, now in session at the City of St. Louis, within and for the

County of St. Louis, on the 21st day of December 1849 then

and there to testify, and the truth to say in ~~a~~ ^ two ^
certain matter ^ s ^ of controversy, now pending in

our said Circuit Court, between Dred Scott plaintiff in one and Harriet

^ is ^ plaintiff ^ in the other ^ , and Irene Emerson is defendant ^ in both ^ , wherein

the said witnesses have heretofore been summoned on the part of the said plaintiffs

Witness, MICHAEL S. CERRE, Clerk of our said Circuit Court, at the City of St. Louis, this 20th day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty – nine

M.S. Cerré CLERK, C.C.

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> Document: Writ of attachment for John Carter, Stewart Carter
> Legal Function: certificate of service

Dred Scott

vs

Irene Emerson

attach

= John T. Carter ^ 143 W. 1 ^

Stuart Carter

^ cor 15 & [illegible][?] ^

^ N.W. [Cor.][?] ^

Executed on Stewart

Carter

= J.R. Carter

not found Dec 21st 1849

Louis T. LaBeaume shff

By Isaiah C. Brown Depty

service $1.00

Non est 50

$1.50

Item sets: Dred Scott Collection; Second Circuit Court Trial, 1849-1850