James B. Wallace petitions the court to award him payment helping to settle the John Reynolds estate. Wallace says that James Coopwood and Bennett Driver, administrators of the John Reynolds estate, hired him "to institute and prosecute various suits ... for the recovery of the property, belonging to said estate which had been taken possession of by the Sons and a Son in law of said John Reynolds, in the lifetime of said John, under the pretence of gifts." The property to which these individuals "had no claim in law ... consisted of ten or eleven slaves of great value." Wallace states that these cases required laborious preparation and execution and that due to his legal skills, the estate recovered all of the slaves and gained "several thousand dollars damages for their detention." Therefore the petitioner prays that the court will issue a decree "to pay three hundred dollars, the amount of his demand, out of the property of the estate. The petitioner states that there are now twenty-three slaves in the estate and sufficient cash to satisfy his demand.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Lawrence County Historical Commission Archives, Moulton, Alabama
