The petitioners, "merchants and partners trading under the firm name & Style of L. B. Fite & Co," ask the court to subject certain slaves to the satisfaction of a debt owed them by Napier Holt & Co., iron manufacturers. The petitioners recovered a judgment against the company for $118.40 on 21 June 1856, but there was no "partnership property or effects ... out of which orators debts & costs could be satisfied by an Execution at Law." Napier Holt & Co. was in "failing circumstances," and its various members had "made many joint and individual conveyances of their partnership and individual property." In particular, the petitioners cite a "pretended" conveyance of ten slaves that James M. Holt made to his father-in-law, Solomon Marsh. They charge that said conveyance was made to "hinder delay and defraud the creditors of James M. Holt, and without any real bonafide considerations passing" between the men. They ask the court to nullify said conveyance, which they contend "has been attached for fraud by sundry creditors of Napier Holt & Co." They also ask the court to issue writs of attachment and injunction and to "subject said negroes to the satisfaction of your Orators debts & costs."
Result: Dismissed.
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Repository: Dickson County Courthouse Annex, Charlotte, Tennessee
