Merchants Samuel McCartney and Alexander Gordon seek to collect a debt out of the income of a trust estate established by Thomas H. Deas at the time of his marriage to Caroline Hall. The petitioners explain that Deas, who was in charge of the "planting interest" of a plantation belonging to the trust, purchased from them supplies "for the use and consumption of a plantation and negroes." The trust estate owned twenty slaves, whom Deas managed on the plantation. After Thomas's death, his brother, Charles D. Deas, refused to compensate McCartney and Gordon for the goods. Insisting that the "articles, wares, and commodities" were "absolutely necessary for the health and preservation of the negroes, and for the carrying on the ordinary business of said plantation," they argue that the trust estate is liable for the debt. They ask that the defendants and "the rest of the Confederates when discovered" be compelled to answer their charges and "to stand to perform and abide such order and Decree therein as to your Honors shall seem meet." [Petition is missing page/pages.]
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