Thomas Hundley avers that he and Benjamin W. Walker formed a slave trading company in 1840, with Hundley establishing himself in New Orleans and Walker in Jackson, Mississippi. Hundley would receive Mississippi slaves and sell them for a profit. Within a short time they had acquired and sold "a large number of slaves." The partnership was dissolved after several years; soon after, however, a suit was brought "to try the right of property in a large number of slaves" in which the rights of the petitioner and Walker should have been defended. However, "Walker either through the grossest negligence on his part-- or, as is more likely through some fraudulent combination with some of the parties interested wholly neglected to employ counsel," thus causing himself and Hundley to lose the execution on the slaves; Walker arranged not to be charged with the paying for the judgment, placing the whole burden on Hundley. Therefore, Hundley prays for an injunction on the previous suit. [Petition is incomplete.]
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Halifax Circuit Court Building, Halifax, Virginia
