William Clark v. Horrace Austin
Item
William Clark V. Horrace Austin. 1811, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 2, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/60559
- Case Title
- William Clark v. Horrace Austin
- Series
- Lewis and Clark
- Plaintiff
- Clark, William
- Defendant
- Austin, Horace
- Date Filed
- 1812
- Filing Date
- 1812
- Plaintiff’s Attorney
- Hempstead, Edward
- Court Name
- St. Louis Court of Common Pleas
- Court Term
- 1812-07
- Judge
- Hammond, Samuel
- Clerk
- Riddick, Thomas F.
- Sheriff
- McNair, Alexander
- Cause of Action
- Trespass on the Case
- Case Notes
- Clark sued to use of the United States; note $148; damages $300.
- Case Number
- 18
- Identifier
- ccr1812.01077.003
- Source
- Missouri State Archives - St. Louis
- Rights
- Public Domain
- PDF Download
- Download PDF of all images
- Transcription
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**William Clark vs. Horrace Austin**
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**Page 1** (1077_001.jpg)
> *Legal Function: Cover*
No. 18
St. Louis Com pleas
July Term 1812
William Clark
use of U. States
[illegible] vs
Horrace Austin
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**Page 2** (1077_002.jpg)
> *Legal Function: Plaintiff's Complaint*
District of Saint Louis [illegible]
William Clark / who [illegible] sues for the
[illegible] use of the united states / complains of [illegible] Horace Austin of
a plea of [illegible] Trespass on the [illegible] case for [illegible] that the [illegible] said defendant on the [illegible] seventeenth day of [illegible] august in the
year one thousand eight hundred Eleven [illegible] at the town
and [illegible] district of [illegible] Saint Louis , by [illegible] his certain promisory
note of that date by him by the name of [illegible] Horace Austin
[illegible], and to the said [illegible] William
then [illegible] & there delivering promising him by the name of
[illegible] Gen. William Clark [illegible] to pay to him [illegible] or order in five days from the date of said [illegible] note the the sum
of one hundred [illegible] forty eight dollars. [illegible] value received
[illegible] For the said Defendant [illegible] though often [illegible] required hath ever refusing [illegible] the [illegible] same form of
money to the plaintiff to pay to his damages for
the [illegible] use of the United States the sum of three
Hundred Dollars [illegible] Wherefore he sues.
*E . [illegible] Hempstead p.q*
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**Page 3** (1077_003.jpg)
> *Legal Function: Caption*
No. 18
Saint Louis Com [illegible] pleas
William Clark
[illegible] use of united states
[illegible] vs Horace Austin
[illegible] case
\$300
To July [illegible] Term 1812
This is an action of
[illegible] Trespass on the case
to [illegible] recover money [illegible] owe
on note of land, [illegible] Let
a [illegible] Capias ad Responden
dum issue damage
\$300. [illegible] bail required
for that [illegible] amount
*[illegible] E Hempstead
Executed [illegible]
[illegible] A McNair Sheriff
[illegible]*
> *Legal Function: Capias ad respondendum*
[illegible]
> *Legal Function: Capias ad respondendum Part 2*
Territory of Louisiana
District of St. Louis [illegible]
[illegible] The United States of america to the
[illegible] sheriff of the district of St .
Louis -Greeting
We command you to take [illegible] Horace Austin [illegible] if
he may be found within your [illegible] bailiwick and and him [illegible] safely keep so that you have his body before the judges of our
Court of common Pleas to [illegible] beholden at the town of St. Louis
in and for the district of St. Louis on the first monday of
July next then and there to Answer [illegible] unto William Clark for
the use of the United States in a plea of [illegible] trespasson the case
to the damage of the [illegible] & the sum of three hundred
dollars [illegible] and have you then there this Writ
*[illegible] Witness the [illegible] honbl Samuel [illegible] Hammond presiding
Judge of our said court of the town of Saint
Louis [illegible] aforesaid this fourteenth day of april
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twelve and of our inde-
pendence the thirty sixth
Bail is Required to $ 300 [illegible] Thomas F. Riddick , Clk
[illegible] Thomas F. Riddick , Clk*
William Clark V. Horrace Austin. 1811, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 2, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/60559