Josiah Baldridge asks the court to enjoin Elizabeth Kirkham from collecting a judgment against him until she transfers to him the titles to two female slaves from her son-in-law, who claims the slaves through his late wife, Dorinda Perkins. Baldridge exchanged his slave Cloe plus $400 for Kirkham's two slaves, Reny and her daughter Mary, in the spring of 1836. Kirkham "promised your Orator, that she would get the said Perkins to assign to your Orator whatever interest or claim he had in the negroes." Not only did Kirkham fail to do this, she threatened to sue him "as the Guardian & in the name of her children alleging that the title of said negroes is in them, [and] that she has no title." Later she did file suit against Baldridge "upon his warranty" for Cloe. She received a judgment for $400, "which was 50$ more than the estimated value of the negro in the trade." The debt is now in the sheriff's hands for collection, and Baldridge submits that he "ought not to be compelled to pay said judgment until he shall be quieted and made safe in his title to said slaves."
Result: Partially granted; denied.
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
