Attachment
STATE OF MISSOURI, ) SCT.
COUNTY OF ST. LOUIS, )
To the Sheriff of St. Louis County, GREETING:
WE command you to attach,John T. Carter, Stuart Carter
by their
bodies and them
safely keep, so that you have
their bodies
before
the Judge of our Circuit Court, now in session at the City of St. Louis, within and for the
County of St. Louis, on the 21st day of December
1849 then
and there to testify, and the truth to say in atwo
certain matters of controversy, now pending in
our said Circuit Court, between Dred Scott plaintiff in one and
Harriet
isplaintiff
^in the other, and Irene Emerson is
defendant ^ in both, wherein
the said witnesses
have
heretofore been summoned on the part of the said plaintiffs
Witness, MICHAEL S. CERRE, Clerk of our said Circuit Court, at the City of St. Louis, this 20th day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty – nine
M.S. CerréCLERK, C.C.
