Nancy Garland avers "that some time in the year 1815 and shortly after her intermarriage with Robert Garland ... she was put in the possession of a certain slave by the name of Henry by Benammi Stone (her father)." Several years later, Stone "concluded to give her the said boy as well as a girl by the name of Mahala and intending by the said gift to provide for the support and maintenance of your oratrix." The deed provided that the slaves should be held "for her use and benefit" by Robert Walker; further, the deed expressly provided that the slaves were not to be subject to the debts of her husband. The petitioner believes that the deed was recorded in the county clerk's office but "is not now to be found ... and your Oratrix supposes it to be lost." An execution against the property of Robert Garland has been issued, and Henry is now under threat of being sold to satisfy the execution. Having raised Henry from childhood as "a family slave," she is unwilling to part with him "at any price, and that his value in damages would be no adequate compensation for the wounded feelings of your Oratrix if he should be taken from her." She seeks an injunction to "perpetually" halt the execution levied on Henry for the debts of her husband.
Result: Injunction granted; dissolved.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
