Michael Harrison declares that defendants William Murphy and Isaac Thomas combined "together to defraud & greatly injure" him when they induced and persuaded "your orator to become Security" in a transaction involving the sale "of a free negro." Harrison contends that Thomas "well knew that the said Negro man was & ought of right to be a freeman," not a slave. When the "Negroe man proved himself to be a free man and recovered his freedom," Murphy filed suit against Harrison "for the value of said Negroe," and the court issued "Judgment against your orator, at a time when he was absent in the public Service." Harrison prays that subpoenas may issue to both defendants and that said judgment against him may "be decreed to be perpetualy injoined."
Result: Partially granted.
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Repository: Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee
