Petition #21182913

• Boone County, Missouri. cicra June 26, 1829. - October 29, 1830.
• Court: Circuit
• Salutation: To the Honorable David Todd Judge of the first Judicial Circuit in the state of Missouri setting as a Court of Chancery within and for the County of Boone in said Circuit

Abstract

Amos Barnes reports that he purchased "a certain negro boy slave" from Benjamin Cave on 21 January 1828, with the understanding "that the said slave was sound and healthy in body and mind except that said slave was frost bitten in the Toes of one foot." He notes that he purchased the slave for $375 and sold the slave to David Williams a week later for $362. Barnes relates that the slave died of consumption later that year and that Williams "demands of your Orator the said purchase money paid by him to your Orator." He further cites that Cave has also filed suit to obtain the money owed for the slave, plus interest and court costs. The petitioner avers that Cave has won his suit, and he fears that he will try to collect on the judgment soon. Alleging that Cave "well knew that slave was afflicted with the said disease called the consumption and that said slave then was and ever would be of no use or value," Barnes prays that Cave may be restrained from "all further proceedings in said Judgment until final hearing of this Cause."

Result: Granted.

• Number of petition pages: 8
• Related documents: Answer, Benjamin Cave, 24 December 1829; Clerk's Certification of Witnesses' Attendance, Macon [Macom] Purcel and James E. Fenton, 26 June 1829; Transfer of Claim, James E. Fenton to Shelton Jones, 22 May 1830; Receipt, Shelton Jones from Clerk of Circuit Court, 22 February 1831; Affidavit of Witness's Expenses, Peyton N. Mahan, 1 July 1830; Instructions to Jury, ca. October Term 1830; Jury Verdict, October Term 1830; Decree, 29 October 1830; Affidavit of Witness's Expenses, Alexander Ellison, ca. December 1830; Receipt, Alexander Ellison from the Clerk of Circuit Court, 25 March 1831; Receipt, Macon Purcel, 18 April 1831; Affidavits of Witnesses' Expenses, Peyton N. Mahan and Squire N. Redmon, n.d.
• Pages of related documents: 23

4 people are documented within petition 21182913

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Defendant
• 2 Petitioners

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Citation information

Repository: Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, Missouri

• Records of the Circuit Court
• Folder: Locator 247
• Page: 1
• Microfilm: Reel C16663

Subjects

• Death of enslaved (disease)
• Diseases (physical)
• Warranty (enslaved)
• Purchase/Sale prices (enslaved)