We command you to summon Clayton TiffinClayton Tiffin & Louis
MenardMenard that they be and appear before the Judge of our CircuitCircuit Court
CourtCircuit Court at the next term thereof to be held at the city of St. LouisSt Louis within
and for the County of St. LouisCounty of St Louis on the Fourth Monday in November next
then and there to answer unto John MerryJohn Merry a free man of color who
is permitted by the Court to sue as a poor person of a plea of trespass
to the damage of said plaintiff of six hundred dollars and have
you then there this writ.