{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21684327","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21684327","state":"Virginia","county":"Halifax","location_type":"County","file_day":9,"file_month":9,"file_year":1843,"filing_court":"Circuit Superior","end_day":9,"end_month":9,"end_year":1847,"ending_court":"Circuit Superior","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Halifax Circuit Court Building, Halifax, Virginia","abstract":"Thomas Hundley avers that he and Benjamin W. Walker formed a slave trading company in 1840, with Hundley establishing himself in New Orleans and Walker in Jackson, Mississippi.  Hundley would receive Mississippi slaves and sell them for a profit.  Within a short time they had acquired and sold \"a large number of slaves.\"  The partnership was dissolved after several years; soon after, however, a suit was brought \"to try the right of property in a large number of slaves\" in which the rights of the petitioner and Walker should have been defended.  However, \"Walker either through the grossest negligence on his part-- or, as is more likely through some fraudulent combination with some of the parties interested wholly neglected to employ counsel,\" thus causing himself and Hundley to lose the execution on the slaves; Walker arranged not to be charged with the paying for the judgment, placing the whole burden on Hundley.  Therefore, Hundley prays for an injunction on the previous suit.  [Petition is incomplete.]","subjects":[{"subject":"Crops (tobacco)"},{"subject":"Freedom seekers"},{"subject":"Slave trade (domestic)"}]}]}