John Huddleston, a resident of Lowndes County, Mississippi, seeks an attachment on slave property that he "believes & so charges" is "now in Maury County at what precise place or in whose possession he is not advised." The petitioner recounts that "one George Stillman of Lowndes County Mississippi borrowed said negroes the mother to wait upon his family as a cook until your Orator should want them or until said Stillman could hire one in her place." Huddleston contends that Stillman "fraudulently run off said negroes to parts unknown" and that "they are concealed by various persons to him unknown as yet" in this county. Since Stillman is at present insolvent, the petitioner "has good reason to believe" that if he should "endeavor to regain said negroes without the aid of an attachment that said negroes will be run entirely off so that your Orator will lose them." Huddleston therefore asks that the sheriff "attach said negroes & keep them" and that Stillman be required to answer his charges. James Douglass claims to be the "lawful owner" of the slaves in his cross bill; he alleges that Stillman purchased the slaves from Huddleston "six years ago" and proceeded to sell them to Douglass for $1300 in 1843. The 1847 decree ruled that Huddleston had a valid claim on the slaves and that Douglass fraudulently "purchased [the slaves] with a view to defeat the same."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Maury County Historical Society Loose Records Project, Columbia, Tennessee
