George Cook hired Stephen Haynie as his overseer for one year. Cook contends, however, that Haynie initially "pretended and kept up a show of attending to the business of your petitioner," but, by the end of the year, the said Haynie "idled the whole time away in stroling and wandering to divers parts and places seperate and part from the Plantation where the negroes under his care ought to have been attended to by him in making a crop." Cook argues that Haynie's neglect destroyed the crop and that he "beat bruised & wounded the negroes of your petitioner ... somuch that they were rendered unable to do & perform the labour necessary." Cook sues Haynie for $500 in damages.
Result: Partially granted.
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Repository: Elbert County Courthouse, Elberton, Georgia
