21484411https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21484411TennesseeGilesCounty2331844Chancery2231844Chancerygranted9012Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TennesseeThomas H. Harper asks the court to attach nine slaves belonging to Edward F. Mahone "to answer the said debts & costs of your Orator." Harper won a judgment against Mahone in an Alabama court in 1838, but has been unable to collect the award due to a series of legal maneuvers by Mahone. The petitioner understands that the slaves "have already been attached in four several suits," but is still "desirous of enforcing his said debt & of subjecting said slaves to the satisfaction thereof." He notes that Mahone is a resident of Alabama, "so that the ordinary process of law in Tennessee cannot be run against him."Absentee owners