William T. Ross and Clement C. Clay Jr. ask the court to attach a slave named George and hold him subject to the payment of a $200-debt owed them by John and James Harton for "their joint services rendered as attorneys in defending" George against a charge of burglary. George, who "is owned by one or both of said defendants," was acquitted of the charge at the November 1849 term of the circuit court in Lincoln County. The Hartons are non-residents of Tennessee, but "have an interest in said negro," who is now in Lincoln County but whom the petitioners fear the Hartons will remove "beyond the jurisdiction of the court." They ask that the court decree "said amount due" and that "George be sold and the proceeds applied to the payment of all the Costs hereof and to the debt of Complainants."
Result: Partially granted.
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Repository: Lincoln County Courthouse, Fayetteville, Tennessee
