Fourteen years ago, George Mulholland, a man of color, was sold for a seventeen-year-term of service. Mulholland relates that he had several owners since then, and is presently owned by Pascolas Lebar in Louisiana, who holds him as a slave for life. Mulholland, the petitioner, is currently in Jefferson County, where there is evidence for his emancipation, but explains that John Colmesnil is attempting to return him to Lebar. If Colmesnil is successful, it will "utterly destroy every hope and expectation of his future emancipation." Mulholland asks the court to restrain the defendants from removing him and to compel Lebar to give security that he will be emancipated when his term is expired.
Result: Dismissed.
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Repository: Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky
