Isaac Roraback asks the court to restore to his possession several notes he lost to R. J. Lyle in "a game of hazard and address at cards." Calling Lyle a "regular blackleg," Roraback accuses Lyle and his "partners" of encouraging him to drink so that "he might be more easily swindled at cards." During the game, Lyle "managed to make complt drink twice or thrice to his once." Using the "most dishonest and unfair practices," Lyle won two notes from Roraback, which total three thousand dollars. Lyle "pretended to be and perhaps was buying negroes and had a good deal to do with one William L. Crockett ... and one Reuben Roddie," to whom he transferred the notes. Roraback now charges that neither Crockett nor Roddie "paid one cent consideration" for the notes and that the two men actually "combined and confederated with the said Lyle in the transfer of said notes to hinder embarass and defraud" him. He finally prays that the notes be "delivered up to him," and, in the meantime, that Roddie and Crockett be "compelled to deposit the same with the Clerk & Master to await the final issue of this suit."
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