Robert Caldwell petitions the court on behalf of twelve-year-old Louisa Jane Harris, requesting a writ of sequestration against Samuel Thompson, who is in the possession of Harris's five-year-old slave named Eliza. Caldwell complains that Thompson has refused to return Eliza to Harris or pay her for Eliza's value. The petitioner charges that Harris "casually lost the said negro girl out of her possession" on 30 December 1837. He claims that Thompson's refusal to return Eliza has resulted in "the damage of your Petitioner One thousand Dollars." He also asks the court to subpoena Thompson and to compel him to deliver the slave to Harris, "or if the same can not be had then to pay to your petitioner the value thereof."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: East Texas Research Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
