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Case Settled. - - At Platte City, Missouri, the case of Sarah Duncan, aged ex-slave, against the estate of the late Henry Clay Duncan, banker, Shorthorn breeder and former president of the American Royal, has been steeled for $5,000, and the case has been dismissed.
Sarah Duncan had asked $80,000 as the unpaid wages of a lifetime of service in the Duncan household. Sarah’s mother was a slave in the home of Mr. Duncan’s father (Stephen Duncan).
At the mother’s request Sarah was reared in the Duncan household. She remained there until the death of Henry Clay Duncan, when she went to St. Joseph, Missouri. Attorneys there brought suit. - Leavenworth Times.Date(s) of Creation
4/27/1928
