Samuel Red seeks the court's intervention in restraining Williamson and Elizabeth Baker from removing a family of slaves beyond the court's jurisdiction. Red represents that Elizabeth filed suit in 1828 to prevent him from seizing a female slave Rosilah and Rosilah's children for the discharge of debts owed to him by her husband; Elizabeth claimed a separate life estate in the slaves by virtue of her late father's will. Noting that her suit was granted pro confesso, Red asserts that it had no merit. He argues that the Bakers, who have cheated him once, intend "to cheat worse by running off said negroes" or "so concealing them" that they cannot be "rendered subject to the payment" of Baker's debt. The petitioner represents that Williamson Baker has "no other property of any consequence or Value With the exception of the negroes aforesaid."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
