Missouri Fur Company v. Charles Latour
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Missouri Fur Company V. Charles Latour. 1817, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 4, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/60584
- Case Title
- Missouri Fur Company v. Charles Latour
- Series
- Lewis and Clark
- Fur Trade
- Plaintiff
- Missouri Fur Company
- Defendant
- Latour, Charles
- Date Filed
- 1817-09-10
- Filing Date
- 1817-09-10
- 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, William Morrison, Peter Menard, Samuel Bridge, Reuben Lewis; note to be paid in beaver fur; Fort Recovery in Howard County; note $431.92.
- Case Number
- 63
- Identifier
- ccr1817.01207.004
- 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 Latour**
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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
you eighteen hundred and seventeen
[illegible] William Clark [illegible] Manuel Lisa and
Henry [illegible] Piere [illegible] Chouteau August [illegible] Chouteau [illegible] [illegible]
[illegible] Labbadie [illegible] William [illegible] Morrison Peter [illegible] Menard [illegible]
& [illegible] Reuben Secris heretofore trading and doing [illegible] business [illegible] together
under the name form and style of the Missouri [illegible] Fur [illegible] Company
complain by their [illegible] Attorney of Charles [illegible] Satour in a
plea of [illegible] trespass on the case for that the said [illegible] Charles
heretofore [illegible] to wit on the eighteenth day of september in the
year of our lord one thousand eight hundred & eleven at
a place called [illegible] Fort [illegible] Ricaras on the Missouri river in the
[illegible] then county of saint [illegible] Charles now County of [illegible] Howard all
the Territory aforesaid- [illegible] to wit at the County of Saint Louis
aforesaid and [illegible] within the [illegible] jurisdiction of this court made
his certain writing of that duty under his ordinary mark
of hand land now here to be produced, whereby he acknowledged
to [illegible] owe to the above named [illegible] Manuel [illegible] Lisa as [illegible] Factor
and Agent of a said missouri [illegible] Fur Company for he was
then & there acting and doing [illegible] business as Agent and [illegible] Factor
for [illegible] & onbehalf of said plaintiff as [illegible] as for himself
is their trade [illegible] & business up said Missouri River- and
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and the said Defendant then & there promised
to pay to said [illegible] Manuel [illegible] Lisa or his order
as Agent and Factor as aforesaid, by the name and
description of [illegible] Mr Manuel [illegible] Lisa [illegible] Facteu [illegible] de [illegible] la
comp [illegible] des [illegible] Fourerre [illegible] du [illegible] Missoury the [illegible] sum of
four hundred [illegible] & thirty one dollars and Ninety two
[illegible] cents to be paid in pound, or at three dollars [illegible] [illegible]
for the value thereof in an [illegible] for the [illegible] [illegible]
said Defendant then [illegible] [illegible] said Note in writing
to said Agent- which said [illegible] was to be [illegible] of there
paid and deliverd whereover [illegible] to [illegible] he said Defendant
should be [illegible] whereby an action he the [illegible]
to said plaintiff to have of then said Defendant the
sum mentioned in said writing according to the honor of
effect of the same Never [illegible] the said
Defendant thought open requested to pay the aforesaid
of money to said plaintiffs according to the [illegible] [illegible]
of said writing [illegible] on the first day of [illegible] in the
year at the place aforesaid [illegible] at the County of [illegible]
Louis aforesaid [illegible] never paid the said sum [illegible]
mentioned in said writing in [illegible] for at the rate
of one dollars and half [illegible] [illegible] or at three dollars
[illegible] [illegible] according to the [illegible] [illegible] aforesaid writing
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> *Legal Function: Plaintiff's Complaint Part 2*
to the aforesaid plaintiffs nor to any person or persons
of or them [illegible] nor any [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] there of but
so to do- [illegible] hath even refused and [illegible]
still [illegible] refuse to the damages aforesaid plaintiffs
one thousands dollars-
Where fore they [illegible] [illegible]
*Ch. S. Hempstread for plffs*
> *Legal Function: Plaintiff's Complaint Part 3*
Territory of Missouri
County of St Louis [illegible] the united states
America to the Sheriff
Greeting
Said County
We command you to take Chartes Jacobe
if he may be found within your Carliwick and
him safely keep so that you may have his boy
before the judges of our Circuit Court , to be held
at the [illegible] of St Louis within and bow the
County of St Louis on the second monday of
[illegible] next there there to answer with William
clerk Mauuic Sisa Andrew Harry Peerre Chouteau
August P Chauteau Silvestre Laccadu
William Marrisou Peter Menard Sameul Bridge
and [illegible] Lewis in a plea of Trespass on the case
to the damage of the said plaintiffs one thousands
[illegible] them there this writ.
*Witness Mary Philip Ledue Clerk at office
tenth day of September eighteen
hundred and fourteen and of the
[illegible] [illegible] the forty [illegible] [illegible]D Clk
for M P Leduc Clerk*
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> *Legal Function: Summons*
The Sheriff is requested to hold the defendant to
[illegible] bailin the sum of one thousand dollars
*[illegible]D. Clk
for M P Leduc Clerk*
> *Legal Function: Caption*
No. 63
No. to October Term 1817
St. Louis Cir Court
Missouri
vs
Charles Latour
Fur Company
Narr in case
Cap. Denn \$1000
This is an action of trespass
on the case founded a state
in [illegible] of Dfts. Set a unit
of Capiter acrupondendum
issue accordingly. Damage
\$1000. bail required for that
amount
*Ch. S. Hempstead for Plffs filed September 10th
1817 [illegible] Clk
for [illegible] Sep 10*
> *Legal Function: Summons Part 2*
John W. Thompson Sheriff of
St Louis County Sir of trespass
you may dispense
with putting Charles [illegible] Latour with
to Jail [illegible] September 22nd 1817
*P. Chouteau
A. P. Chouteau*
John W. Thompson Sheriff of Saint
Louis County Sir you
may discharge Charles
Latour the Defendant
in this Suit [illegible] further
[illegible] september
22nd 1817
*[illegible] Str Labaddie*
> *Legal Function: Certificate of Execution*
Excuted they writ by answering the
Defendant in St Louis County Sept
22nd 1817
and or sured to discharge of [illegible] him
on the same day as will appear above
Server $ 1.00
traveling 1.50
$
*A. V. Carr Dshff
for J. N. Thompson*
Missouri Fur Company V. Charles Latour. 1817, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project, accessed October 4, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.washu.edu/s/ccr/item/60584