Petition #21184602
- St. Louis County, Missouri. April 6, 1846. - April 6, 1846.
- Court: Circuit
- Salutation: To the Hon John M Krum, Judge of the St Louis Circuit Court
Abstract
Dred Scott, a man of color, represents that he is "claimed as a slave by one Irene Emerson," widow of Dr. John Emerson. Dr. Emerson bought Scott and took him to Rock Island, Illinois, where he worked for the doctor, a surgeon in the United States Army. Dr. Emerson left Rock Island and went to Fort Snelling on the St. Peter's River in the Iowa Territory, taking Scott with him. After five years, when Dr. Emerson was sent to Florida, he hired Scott out to Captain Bainbridge. Dr. Emerson has died and now his widow, Irene Emerson, claims Scott as her slave. Claiming "that he is entitled to his freedom," Dred Scott "prays your honor to allow him to sue said Irene Emerson in said Court, in order to establish his right to freedom."
Result: Petition granted; plea of trespass filed, denied, appealed, reversed and remanded.
- Number of petition pages: 2
- Related documents: PARs #21184605, #21184704, #21184706; Order, 6 April 1846; Summons, Irene Emerson, 6 April 1846; Sheriff's Return, 7 April 1846; Notice, Irene Emerson, 8 April 1846; Sheriff's Return, 8 April 1846; Plea of Trespass, Dred Scott, November Term 1846; Plea, Irene Emerson, 19 November 1846; Notices, Dred Scott, 10 May 1847; Acknowledgments of Notice, Irene Emerson, 7 and 10 May 1847; Commissioner's Statement, 10 May 1847; Deposition, Catherine Anderson, 10 May 1847; Deposition, Miles H. Clark, 13 May 1847; Correspondence and Reply, J. R. Lockland to Samuel Russell, 2 June 1847; Summons, Samuel Russell, et al., 24 June 1847; Sheriff's Return, 30 June 1847; Summons, B. S. Garland, 30 June 1847; Sheriff's Return, 30 June 1847; Summons, John F. Carter, 26 June 1847; Sheriff's Return, 30 June 1847; Jury Instructions [incomplete], n.d.; Motion, Dred and Harriet Scott, 30 June 1847; Motion, Dred and Harriet Scott, 1 July 1847; Affidavit, Dred Scott, 24 July 1847; Election for New Trial, Dred Scott, 15 November 1847; Bill of Exceptions, Irene Emerson, 4 December 1847; Supplemental Bill of Exceptions, Irene Emerson, 4 March 1848; Motion, Irene Emerson, 14 March 1848; Missouri Supreme Court Ruling, March Term 1848; Summons, Mrs. Samuel Russell, et al., 17 February 1849; Sheriff's Return, n.d.; Summons, Col. Plympton, 25 February 1849; Sheriff's Return, 27 February 1849; Summons, Mrs. Samuel Russell, et al., 28 April 1849; Sheriff's Return, n.d.; Summons, Dr. Watts, John Loving, 1 May 1849; Sheriff's Return, n.d.; Summons, Miles H. Clark, et al., 8 December 1849; Sheriff's Return, n.d.; Summons, John F. Dars, 17 December 1849; Sheriff's Return, 17 December 1849; Writs of Attachment, Catharine Anderson, et al., 20 December 1849; Sheriff's Returns, 21 December 1849; Depositions, Adeline Russell, 20 December 1849; Certification of Deposition, 20 December 1849; Summons, Dr. R. M. Jennings, 20 December 1849; Sheriff's Return, 21 December 1849; Summons, Joseph Charles, Taylor Blow, 22 December 1849; Sheriff's Return, 22 December 1849; Writ of Attachment, Thomas Gray, et al., 12 January 1850; Sheriff's Return, 12 January 1850; List of Names, 12 January 1850; Jury Instructions, ca. 1850; Motion, Irene Emerson, 12 January 1850; Bill of Exceptions, Irene Emerson, 13 February 1850; Copy of Missouri Supreme Court Opinion, 28 May 1852; Certification, 10 April 1852; Notices, Samuel Conway, Louis R. Labeaume, 23 March 1852; Sheriff's Returns, 6 and 7 April 1852; Bond, C. Edmund Labeaume, Henry Blow, 9 April 1851; Motion, Irene Emerson, 8 June 1852
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Repository: Civil Courts Building, St. Louis, Missouri
- Records of the Circuit Court
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