Elias Pohl seeks to stay the sale of a slave child named Suchot. Pohl informs the court that he purchased two slaves from a certain Jonathan Bastide De Lacombe [Delacombe, Lacombe] in 1807 for the sum of $900. The petitioner notes that he permitted the female slave Dezier to remain in De Lacombe's possession, as De Lacombe was "needy and poor in circumstances." Pohl further relates that Dezier had a son named Suchot while in her former owner's possession, perhaps in 1808. He now represents that long after the recording of the bill of sale and after he was in "actual possession of said negroes" Ben Pardue and his wife recovered a judgment against the said De Lacombe and an execution issued. Pohl asserts that the said Pardues "or their attorney has lately seized the child of the said Dezier [called] Suchot ... and is about to sell him to satisfy the execution afsd so lodged against the said Dela Combe." Affirming "that the sale of said negroes was fair & without collusion or fraud," the petitioner prays that an injunction be granted "directed to the said Pardue & wife enjoining & prohibiting them ... from persisting in the sale of the said negro boy."
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