On 2 July 1859, Thomas D. Ethridge obtained a judgment for $30.25 and costs against D. N. Jordan, a feme covert, and her daughter, N. H. Jordan McPherrin, a feme covert. On 12 July 1859, Ethridge and John W. Titlow obtained a judgment for $19.82 and costs against "your Oratrixes alone, without their said husbands being made parties to the action." Asserting that the said judgment is "void," the female petitioners represent that "the note upon which the said judgment was predicated was executed" by them when they both enjoyed the status of "feme covert." They further avow that an officer of the law has levied the judgments on a male slave given in trust to D. N. Jordan and her children. McPherrin and the Jordans argue that the judgments, if valid, cannot be levied on the slave, because "the legal title of the said negro-man, being vested in the said Trustee, it cannot be reached by an Execution at Law." The petitioners ask that an injunction be issued to stop the sale of the slave and any further legal proceedings until the case is settled. They also ask that the judgments be "cancelled, and for nothing held."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
