Petition #21681705

Abstract

George Pulliam seeks to stay a judgment obtained against him "on a bond executed by your orator to [Thomas] Ligon for the hire of a negro." Pulliam admits that Ligon noted his said slave was afflicted, but he contends that Ligon assured "the bystanders of whom your Orator was one" that "the said negro was not thereby injured but was as able to perform labour at the axe hoe or mall as any negro of his age, and was as efficient a hand in the crop as if he did not labour under the aforesaid affliction." The petitioner reveals that he soon learned that the said slave "was entirely unable to perform the duties which he was [said] by Ligon to be able to perform." Pulliam claims that "sd. negro was entirely useless to your orator and expensive because of sd. disease." He reports that he insisted that the said Ligon "take back the said negro finding the negro did not meet the expectation of your Orator arising upon the assurances of sd. Ligon," but he reveals "that the sd. Ligon positively refused." Noting that Ligon assigned the bond to Thomas Carter, who obtained a judgment against him for nonpayment, the petitioner prays to "stay all further proceedings on the aforesaid judgments on the said bond."

Result: Injunction granted; bill taken pro confesso; dismissed.

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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

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