Samuel and Mary Ann Crankfield Lanhon ask that Jonathan Crankfield "be required to set forth fully his actings and doings as trustee" of the said Mary Ann. They report that Mary Ann's father, Littleton Crankfield, "conveyed in trust for the use of your petitioner, the said Mary Ann ... three negro slaves, to wit, Betty, Button and Angeline." They further represent that, after the death of Littleton Crankfield, they "exchanged or traded" Betty and her three children "to Jonathan Crankfield for a negro man named Arnold, in which exchange or trade the said Jonathan agreed to allow your petitioners the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars as a difference." The Lanhons charge that the said Jonathan has withheld the annual "rent for the real estate of your petitioner" for the past two years as well as "about two years' interest on the said sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, all of which he refuses to pay." The petitioners therefore pray that Jonathan Crankfield be compelled to account for "the sum or sums due and owing by him, as trustee, for your petitioner, for the rents, issues and profits of her trust estate aforesaid" and that he be ordered "to execute, in good faith, the trust reposed in him in this behalf, or that he be removed from his said trusteeship."
Result: Referred.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
