In an amended bill, Abner Strange represents that Elizabeth Price contracted with him in January 1798 "to Superintend a plantation then in the possession of [Price] belonging to David Ross." He states that Price proposed "that your Orator should raise a Crop of Tobacco on the Defendants plantation," and the petitioner agreed. It was also agreed "that your Orator might work the hands of the Deft in your Orators Crop, when he thought proper, repaying the Same with the labour of your Orators hands in the Crop of the Defend." Strange notes that he intended to plant tobacco. However, when he discovered that the tobacco barns had been "burnt down whereby it then became imprudent for your Orator to attempt to raise Tobacco," Strange decided "to Cultivate the said ground in Corn." The petitioner relates that Price responded by instituting a suit against him wherein judgments have been rendered against him and "the Same is levied on your Orator's property." Strange asks that Price "be enjoined from further proceedings on the sd. Judgment."
Result: Dismissed.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
