George C. Lucas avers that on 2 May 1840 he "casually lost" Sandy, an 11-year-old "negroe boy" of "dark complexion and of great value 'to wit' of the value of six hundred dollars." Sandy came into the possession of Wade Horton "by finding" in May 1842; however, "well knowing" that Sandy is Lucas's property, Horton has "wholly refused" to return him to the petitioner. Fearing that Horton will remove Sandy beyond the jurisdiction of the court, Lucas asks for a writ of sequestration, for the return of the slave, and for damages for the "illegal detention of the same together with the costs of this suit."
Result: Partially granted.
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Repository: East Texas Research Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
