Petition #20681901

Abstract

James and Patsy Jenkins Daniel and Franklin and Nancy Cunningham owned a slave, Hardy, worth $2,000. They claim that they "casually lost" Hardy, and that the latter "came into the hands and possession" of James Lockhart "by finding." Although Lockhart was aware of the petitioners' title to Hardy, he refused to deliver the slave to them. They accuse him of deceit and fraud, and claim that he "disposed of the said negro man to his own use," and ask for compensation.

Result: Granted; appealed; overturned.

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Repository: Elbert County Courthouse, Elberton, Georgia

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