Lizzy, "a free woman of color," claims that she and her children are being detained in the city workhouse and that they are about to be sent down to New Orleans to be sold "so that they may be wrongfully defrauded out of their liberty." She states that, according to the terms of Isaac Carson's 1825 will, she and her children were to be freed after eight years; that time has now passed. The defendant Cutter claims that Carson mortgaged Lizzy to pay a debt, but Lizzy believes Carson's estate is sufficient to pay all debts. She asks the court to enjoin the defendants from removing them until their action for freedom is heard.
Result: Dismissed.
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