Missouri Fur Company v. Charles Tibeau
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Missouri Fur Company V. Charles Tibeau. 1816, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 3, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/60583
- Case Title
- Missouri Fur Company v. Charles Tibeau
- Series
- Lewis and Clark
- Fur Trade
- Plaintiff
- Missouri Fur Company
- Defendant
- Tibeau, Charles
- Date Filed
- 1817
- Filing Date
- 1817
- Plaintiff’s Attorney
- Hempstead, Charles S.
- Court Name
- Territory of Missouri, District of St. Louis, Court of Common Pleas
- Court Term
- 1817-10
- Clerk
- Leduc, Marie Philip
- Sheriff
- Thompson, John W.
- Cause of Action
- Trespass on the Case
- Case Notes
- Missouri Fur Company made up of William Clark; Manuel Lisa; Andrew Henry; Auguste Chouteau; Sylvestre Labbadie, Sylvestre; William Morrison; Peter Menard; Samuel Bridge; Reuben Lewis; "a lisle a Loirssel" on Missouri River; note $271.59; damages $400.
- Case Number
- 62
- Identifier
- ccr1817.01206.004
- Source
- Missouri State Archives - St. Louis
- Rights
- Public Domain
- PDF Download
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- Transcription
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**Missouri Fur Company vs. Charles Tibeau**
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> *Legal Function: Plaintiff's Complaint*
Territory of Missouri
County of Saint Louis [illegible] In the Circuit Court for said
County of the Term of October
in the year eighteen hundred & seventeen
William Clark, Manuel Lisa Andrew
[illegible] Henry Pierre Chouteau, August P Chouteau , Silvertre
Labbadie, William Morrison , Peter Menard Samuel
Bridge, & Reuben Lerris, heretofore doing [illegible]
and [illegible] trading together under the name [illegible] form & [illegible] style of
"The Missouri [illegible] Fur Company " complain by their
Attorney of Charles Tibeau in a plea of trespass
on the case, for that the said Charles heretofore
[illegible] to wit on the third day of September, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred seven [illegible] to wit
a place on the Missouri [illegible] called “a lisle a [illegible] Loyal ”
in the then District of St. Charles, & Territory aforesaid
now County of [illegible] Howard said Territory. [illegible] to wit at
the County of Saint Louis aforesaid ([illegible] direction the jurisdiction
of this Court) made his [illegible] writing of that date
commonly called a [illegible] promissory note [illegible] his own proper
hand being thereunto signed ([illegible] 1 & nowhere to be [illegible] shown )
whereby he acknowledged to owe to the above named Manuel
Lisa as [illegible] for the said Missouri [illegible] Fur Company
[illegible] was then & there acting as Agent & Factor for and on
behalf of said plaintiffs as well as for himself in [illegible] then
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said [illegible] business up the Missouri River in the Territory
aforesaid, the said Defendant then & there promised to pay
to said Manuel , or his order as Agent Factor as
aforesaid by the name and discription of “[illegible] Im Manuel
Lisa [illegible] Factor de la Compagny des [illegible] du Missoury"
the just Sum of two hundred & seventy one Dollars
and fifty nine Cents Lawful money of the United States
when thereunto afterwards he should be requested, for
the Value there of received in [illegible] diving merchandise received by
said Defendant from the aforesaid Agent. I for payments
made to several persons for him said [illegible] Tebeau by said Manuel
an Agent as aforesaid. [illegible] the then & there delivered the same
[illegible] promissory [illegible] note to said Agent for said plaintiffs. Whereby
an action [illegible] hath: [illegible] to said plaintiffs to [illegible] recover [illegible] if have
of & from said Defendant the aforesaid Sum of money
mentioned in said promissory note when thereunto afterwards
he should be requested. Nevertheless the said Defendant
though often requested to pay said Sum of money mentioned in
said promissory note, to said plaintiffs [illegible] to wit on the
day and year [illegible] & at the place last aforesaid, [illegible] to wit at the
County of Saint Louis aforesaid. [illegible] Hath never paid the same
Sum of money nor any part nor pencil thereof to said plaintiffs
nor to any person for them, but so to hitherto [illegible] hath ever refused
& still [illegible] doth refuse to the Damage of said plaintiffs four hundred
Dollars; wherefore they Sue &c.
*J. S. Hempstead forplff*
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> *Legal Function: Summons*
Territory of Missouri
county of St. Louis [illegible] The [illegible] united states of
America to the [illegible] sheriff
the county of [illegible] St. Louis ... greeting
we command gave to take Charles Tibeau if [illegible]
he may be found within your [illegible] bailiwick
[illegible] him safely keep so that [illegible] you may [illegible] have
before [illegible] our Circuit court to be [illegible] held
judge therof on the second monday of a
at the [illegible] town of St. Louis within and
County of [illegible] St. Louis then & there to [illegible]
William Clark. [illegible] Manuel [illegible] Lisa [illegible] Andrew
Chouteau August [illegible] P Chouteau [illegible]
William [illegible] Morrison [illegible] Peter [illegible] Menard [illegible] Sam
and [illegible] Reuben [illegible] Lewig in a [illegible] plea of [illegible] trespass on
the [illegible] case to the damage of the said plaintiff
four hundred dollars and have you then
there this writ
*Witness Mary Philip Leduc Clerk at office
this tenth day of september eighteen
hundred and seventeen and four
[illegible] presence the forty second [illegible] D. Clerk for
M. P. Leduc Clerk*
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> *Legal Function: Summons*
The sheriff is required to [illegible] hold the [illegible] defendant to [illegible] bail
in the [illegible] sum of four hundred dollars
*[illegible] D. Clerk for
M. P. Leduc Clerk [illegible] Charles Tibeau non est
non est 50 A. Carr D. Sheriff
for JM Thompson Sheriff*
> *Legal Function: Caption*
No 62
[illegible] to Oct Term
S Louis Cir Court
Missouri Fur Company vs [illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible] Charles Tibeau [illegible]
[illegible] \$400
[illegible]
This is an action on the case
founded on a promissory note
of Debt to plffs Let
a writ of [illegible] capias ad respon
dendum issue accordingly
Damage \$400. bail required
for that amount
*C. S. Hempstead*
Missouri Fur Company V. Charles Tibeau. 1816, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 3, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/60583