James M. Chadwick writes that John A. Davis owes him $5,039 from past loans. As security Davis mortgaged four slaves "of copper color," Wiley, Milla, Julia, and Alabama, "and also all the right, title and interest which the said defendant had in and to the Estate of one William Davis." All Davis has done so far toward repayment of the debt is to deliver nine bales of cotton to Chadwick for sale in New Orleans, with instructions that the proceeds should be used to repay the debt. But the sale of the cotton has so far produced no results and Chadwick now requests "that the deed of mortgage may be foreclosed and sale made by order of the court of the slaves therein mortgaged or so many of them as may be necesary to pay the indebteness aforesaid."
Result: Dismissed.
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Repository: Bradley County Courthouse, Warren, Arkansas
