Hamilton Coleman and James Duke, owners of the mercantile firm of Coleman & Duke, sue Henry and Julia Crocheron for about $250 on "merchandise and articles necessary for family use" ordered but not paid for during 1853, 1854, and 1855. Since the husband is "insolvent" and the wife, Julia, holds a trust estate with "a large number of negroes" and a plantation worth fifty thousand dollars, the merchants ask that the debt be charged "upon the Separate estate of the said Julia." They point out that Edward T. Watts, Julia's trustee, has received requests from the Crocherons to pay the bills but he has refused to do so.
Result: Granted pro confesso.
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Repository: Dallas County Courthouse, Selma, Alabama