Robert Mickle and John A. Peay, trustees for Arabella Peay Pickett, request an injunction to prevent the sale of two trust slaves. The petitioners explain that John Peay, who died in 1839, bequeathed seven slaves and their increase in trust for his niece Arabella and her children. John Peay specified that the slaves were "not to be subject to the debts or contracts of any husband she might marry." Recently, the sheriff seized two of the slaves, Duncan and Helen, to satisfy judgments against Arabella's husband, William Pickett. The trustees assert that Duncan and Helen belong to Arabella's trust, not to Pickett. They also inform the court that John Peay's estate still owes debts and that Arabella's trust slaves "are liable therefore in case of a deficiency of assets." The trustees ask the court to prevent the defendants from selling the slaves.
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