James Martin claims that he is a free-born boy of ten and that his mother is a free woman of color born of a white woman. About one year ago, a man named Fair prevailed upon his mother to permit James to go to New Orleans to "ride a race for hire;" Fair took James to New Orleans, but there was no race, and later he was delivered by Fair to Betsy Wells, alias Ann Wells, in Louisville. Wells pretends that James is a slave and "unjustly holds him in possession as such." James asks that the court restrain her from moving him out of the area, and to "secure to him his birthright - which he 'prizes above all price'."
Result: Discontinued.
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