Territory of Missouri
County of St Louis
Ss.

Manuel Lisa , Pierre Chouteau , August
P . Chouteau Sylvester Labbadie, William Clarke , William Morrison
Peter Menard C Andrew Henry . and Reuben Lewis
Traders Merchants in company under the name firm and
style of the Missouri Fur Company complain of Thomas
James of a plea of trespass on the case for that
the said Thomas James as the County aforesaid on
the day of october in the year One Thousand
Eight hundred & Nine by his certain prompting
him of that July by him subcribing
to the plaintiff then and there delivering promising
then by the name of the Missouri fur Company
to pay then on order the sum of
Hundred & forty three dollars eighty one cents
for receiving being for that he therein
is and thereby acknowledged to owe them.

You the said defendant- though
of the refusing and still
inform the same sum of money on any part
thereof to the plaintiff to pay to damages
Four Hundred dollars

E. Hempstead

No 29
oct. 1814

Manuel Lisa

Thomas James

$400

This is an action of
trespass on the case to
recent money due on
a
upon & certain bail
required for $400

Hempstead

Executed

Bail
Bond $ 1.20
travelling 1.20
$3.00

Territory Of Missouri ,
County of St. Louis sct.
The United States of America , to the sheriff of the county of St. Louis , Greeting.

We command you to take Thomas James
if he may be found within your bailiwick and him safely keep so that you may have
his body before the judges of our court of common pleas, to be held at the town of St. Louis , within and
for the County of St. Louis , on the fourth of October then there
to answer unto Manuel Lisa Peter Chouteau August P . Chouteau , Sylvester Labadie,
William Clark, William Morrison , Pierre Menard , Andrew Henry , and Reuben
Lewis merchants in company with the same firm of
the Missouri Fur Company in a plea of trespass on the case
to the
damage of the said plaintiff the sum of
four hundred dollars- and have you then
there this writ.

Witness Mary P . Leduc
clerk of our said said court at the town of St. Louis aforesaid, this
fourth day of October in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and Fourteen and of the Independence
of the United States of America the thirty ninth
M. P. Leduc Clk. St. L . C.C.C.P.

Manuel Lisa
vs
Thomas James

in care
damage
$1000.

This is an action of trespass
or the case founded on
of law for the
payment of money

The sheriff is require to take
Bail for $.400—
M. Clk
E. Hempstead