Thomas Preston asks the court to enjoin "all further proceedings" in a suit instituted against him by William Fosdick. Preston purchased a slave named Winston, a blacksmith by trade, from Fosdick's son, George, for four hundred dollars. Reported to be worth nearly twice that amount, Preston paid so little because Fosdick refused to sell Winston "to a master to whom he did not wish to go." Less than six months after the purchase, however, Winston "died of a fit." Preston asserts that Fosdick "well knew" the slave was "liable to fits," and that "Fosdick came to his house with a formed design to practice a fraud upon him calculating upon operating on his feelings in behalf of a negro who had been his playmate in boyhood." Fosdick has successfully brought suit against Preston in the superior court on the unpaid purchase bonds and Preston seeks an injunction on the judgment.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
