Rhoda B. Boland, the ten-year-old daughter of John M. Boland, sues by her next friend for a bill of injunction and relief. Rhoda's parents "are living separate and apart from each other and have been for several years past." Rhoda's mother, Mary M. Boland, previously petitioned for alimony, but she withdrew her petition on the condition that her husband would convey a female slave named Francis "for the sole and separate use of the Plaintiff." John Boland prepared the deed, but then failed to execute it, and he now refuses to give up Francis to his daughter. More importantly, John Boland is insolvent, and his creditors have laid claim to Francis. The petitioner therefore prays that her father be "restrained from selling said Slave Francis or removing her out of the State or in any wise preventing the Plaintiff from enjoying all the rights to said Slave conferred by said deed." She also requests that he be ordered "to deliver up the said deed to be recorded according to law;" that he be "decreed to restore said Slave to the said Plaintiff;" and that he be prevented "from destroying the said deed."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
