Petition #20783312

Abstract

George Winters claims that he is a free man of color, born to a free mother in Virginia. He has commenced an action at law for "trespass assault & battery and false imprisonment" against Joseph Dough. Dough, who claims him as a slave, is working him on board the steamboat Vermillion and is about to take him to Louisiana. Winters asks that Dough be restrained from removing him and that he be hired out "to service where he may also attend to the prosecution of his case."

Result: Dismissed.

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Repository: Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky

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