Calvin Craddock avers "that a good many years ago, his father John Craddock purchased of Charles Huckstep, a negro man slave named Anderson." He cites that the said slave "was purchased to be employed as a boatman, and was thus for years, associated with your Orator and other sons of his master, who became much attached to him." Craddock recounts that his father became indebted in 1842 and was forced to sell three slaves to his son Luther. Noting that "Anderson was one of the slaves thus sold to Luther, and by far the most valuable of the three embraced in the bill of sale," Craddock states that his brother "agreed that your Orator might take him at the price of $400." When his father was "declared a Bankrupt" and creditors levied upon Anderson, the petitioner did receive an injunction, but it has not "saved him from any further attack upon his title to said slave." He reveals that Isaiah Stout recently obtained a judgment and an execution, whereupon Anderson has been levied upon. Reasserting that Anderson is not his father's property and should not be sold to pay his debts, the petitioner prays that Stout be prohibited from any further proceedings against Anderson.
Result: Dismissed.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
