Writ of Summons to Irene Emerson (Document #05)

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                                   		COUNTY OF ST. LOUIS, SS.

[torn] WE command you

   to Summon Irene Emerson [torn] if, she be found in your County that
[torn] she be and 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

     Dred Scott of a plea in trespass [torn]

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

          WITNESS, JOHN RULAND, Clerk of our said Court,
          with the seal thereof affixed, at office, in the city of St.
          Louis, this Sixth day of April in the year of our Lord
          eighteen hundred and forty-Six
             John 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 6 day of Apl 1846              F.R. Murdoch

Executed this [illegible] in the County of Saint Louis on the Seventh day of April 1846. by reading it and the Petition + order of the Judge to Irene Emmerson thee defendant.

    service $2.00                            William Milburn Shff
    notice       .50                            By Henry B Belk Depty
                 $2.50