Mary Williams seeks an injunction to prevent one of her husband's creditors, Martin Sulzbacher, "& all officers & agents" from "disturbing her rights" to a slave named Lorenzo Dow. The petitioner explains that, before her 1823 marriage with an indebted Henry W. Williams, "marriage articles were accordingly drawn signed & executed" giving her a "sole & seperate Estate" in certain slaves "and other property." One of the original slaves embraced in the contract, Charlotte, has since had a son named Lorenzo Dow, who has recently been levied upon at Sulzbacher's "instance." Mary calls the levy "wholly illegal" and asserts that "no right for the levy or sale whatever exists." She asks the court to intervene and to protect her "sole & seperate" property. The court's decree consolidated and "heard together" this case as well as a cross bill filed by Martin Sulzbacher against Mary and Henry Williams, which the supreme court dismissed. The text of the cross bill is not included in this transcript.
Result: Granted; appealed; affirmed.
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
