David Gray seeks an injunction against Samuel Edmundson, who has "brought Suit against your Orator" for $3564 and whom "your Orator fears ... will obtain judgment against him." Gray represents that he "entered into Copartnership in the business of buying and selling slaves" with Edmundson in the fall of 1852. He reports that he made two trips "to the South" for the express purpose of selling the firm's slaves and mules. Gray reveals that he "is a man of small education and without any knowledge whatever of keeping accounts and managing money-- all this he entrusted to his partner." The petitioner notes that he and the defendant "dissolved their partnership by mutual consent" about December 1854. Charging that "no settlement took place between your Orator and said Edmundson," Gray submits that his former partner asked him to execute a note to him for $3564, "meaning at the time to endeavor to collect it and to forestall your Orator from making any investigation into the state of the accounts between them and to estop your Orator from making any demands against him for his just rights." The petitioner therefore prays that an account of the partnership business be taken and that "your Orators said note be delivered up to him and cancelled."
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Repository: Williamson County Preservation of Records and Archives, Franklin, Tennessee
