John Browning petitions the court to settle a dispute involving his role as security for three bonds on slaves levied to satisfy court-awarded damages to Joel Ragsdale. The petitioner testifies that "one Samuel J. W. Long put in a claim to said Negroes so levied on in each of said cases" and that the petitioner became security for Long and executed bonds in these cases. The petitioner claims that the sheriff found these bonds to be insufficient and, to satisfy one judgment, he "did then and there at public auction so sell and dispose of the same and the proceeds thereof then and there applied on said executions." Browning, optimistic that he would be "discharged of his said bond and that said proceedings for the trial of right of property would be dismissed," instead charges that Ragsdale "persisted in his efforts to subject" him to the terms of the other levies. The petitioner asks that the defendant "be enjoined from proceeding farther against your orator with said executions or any other execution ... as security upon said bonds."
Result: Dismissed.
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Repository: Sumter County Courthouse, Livingston, Alabama
