In 1818, Nicholas Orrick Jr. purchased a female slave and her two children for seven hundred dollars from Elon Miller. Shortly after, Orrick sold the three slaves to the woman's free black husband. Orrick executed several bonds as payment to Miller, with his father serving as security; however, Orrick soon discovered that his father had failed to include a payment schedule. When Orrick went to Miller to clear up the matter, he found that the seller "had meanwhile taken offense at the circumstance of your orator's selling the negro woman to her free husband, (for whom in fact he had bought her) and refused to rectify his mistake." Instead, Miller "assigned the note for $550 to a certain W. Good," who sued Orrick and obtained a judgment. Orrick prays that "Good his agents & attornies may be injoined from further prosecuting his judgment aforesaid." Israel Robinson, executor to the estate of the late Elon Miller, is also made party to the suit.
Result: Injunction granted; dissolved; dismissed.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
