In 1856, Edward T. Taylor of Muscogee County, Georgia, mortgaged two slaves, William, a man of dark complexion about twenty-five, and Edmund, of "bright" complexion and about twenty-seven, to Paul J. Seemes, to secure the payment for "certain bills of Exchange." In November of that year, Edmund was taken to the county of Russell in Alabama. After the mortgage had been duly recorded, Seemes learned that attachments for large amounts of money had been sued by various individuals in Alabama against Taylor, and as a result the slave Edmund was seized and placed in jail by the sheriff of Russell County. In his petition, Seemes argues that if the sheriff sells the slave to satisfy the judgment, he will lose what he loaned Taylor, but even if the slave is not sold the levy "will cast a cloud over the title to said negro so as to injure his sale for the satisfaction of the debt due to your orator." He asks the court to issue a perpetual injunction restraining Taylor's creditors from "proceeding to sell said negro Edmund," and asks permission to sell the slave himself to satisfy the original mortgage.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Russell County Courthouse, Phenix City, Alabama
