Adaline M. Fulghum Crain and nineteen other relatives seek a partition of their portion of twenty-three slaves owned in common with Raiford Fulghum and five others. The petitioners claim that they are entitled to four-sixths of the slaves' value and hire income, which they assert they have not been paid since 1854. They also report that Raiford Fulghum "wickedly and unlawfully with force and violence and without sufficient cause did assault" Henry, one of the slaves in question, and "by shooting said slave did kill and destroy him." They seek compensation for the "depriv[ation] of their shares or part of the value of" Henry. They also seek an injunction to prevent the defendants from removing the slaves from the state of Texas.
Result: Dismissed.
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Repository: Nacogdoches County Courthouse, Nacogdoches, Texas
