Petition #21381010

Abstract

John Miles Jr. asks for an injunction to prevent Mary Brawley from selling slaves that he claims belong to his wife, Susan Allison Brawley Miles. He contends that his wife inherited four slaves from her grandmother, Margaret Allison, and received by deed from her father, Thomas Brawley, an unspecified number. Mary Brawley, Thomas's widow and Margaret's daughter, qualified as executrix of Brawley's estate and took possession of the slaves "to the manifest Injury of your Orator." Mary Brawley returned "a part of them" as her late husband's estate and intends to sell them. Miles asks the court to issue an injunction to prevent Brawley from selling any of the slaves and to order that she return the slaves to him. He explains that Brawley had real estate "fully sufficient to pay his debts," and argues that, if the slaves are sold and the plantation retained, "it will be unproductive property."

Result: Partially granted.

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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina

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