Nancy G. Bush files a cross bill that claims the sheriff of Sumner County has falsely levied an attachment on her slave property. Bush cites that "an attachment issued from the ... chancery court against the property of the said Claiborne West" but the slave woman and her three children who were seized are "her property and that they are not the property of Said Claiborne West and are not liable to his debts either directly or indirectly." She points out that she "raised said woman from a child & has had said woman & her children in her possession & control all their lives." She further reports that, even though she had hired out the slaves to West, "she never has never given or conveyed them ... to Said Claiborne West." Charging "that her title to said negroes is perfect & complete in herself & are not subject ... to the debts of the Said West," Bush asks that the defendants answer her charges and the slaves "be released from the operation of Said attachment."
Result: Partially granted.
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
