Petition #20285511

• Drew County, Arkansas. filing started September 24, 1855.
• Court: Circuit
• Salutation: To the Honorable Theodrick F. Sorrell[s] Judge of the second judicial Circuit in Chancery presiding

Abstract

Sally H. Sanders, the widow of William Sanders, asks the court to confirm her title to the slave man Jerry and to lift the levies held on him. Upon her husband's death Sally Sanders received, as part of her widow's dower, "a one half interest in said negro boy Jerry and fifty dollars interest in Jerry's wife." Her son James held the other half interest in Jerry, which he sold to Samuel G. Sanders, a minor. Sally Sanders advanced the money on behalf of the minor, but she claims that she has never been paid for it and therefore has full title to the slave. Now Samuel is deeply in debt and Jerry has been levied upon in order to satisfy the many judgments obtained against him. He is "in the jail of the county" and has been "advertised for sale to satisfy the execution aforesaid issued against the said Samuel Sanders." Sally Sanders claims that Jerry "is worth the sum of one thousand dollars and his hire per annum is worth one hundred & fifty dollars."

• Number of petition pages: 15
• Related documents: Receipt of Dower, 26 October 1850; Orders, 3 September 1855, 5 July 1855, 11 September 1855; Deposition of Hugh Rodgers, Order and Summons, 28 August 1855; Deposition of Benjamin Hyatt, Order and Summons, 5 September 1855; Deposition of Abel Wilson, Order and Summons, 27 August 1855; Deposition of William Mims, Order and Summons, 27 August 1855; Deposition of Andrew Allen, Order and Summons, 4 September 1855; Deposition of Frederick Wells, Order and Summons, 28 August 1855; Deposition of Robert Ford, Order and Summons, 27 August 1855; Deposition of Everett Skipper, Order and Summons, 28 August 1855; Order Granting Injunction, 21 September 1855; Answers, Benjamin C. Hyatt, Robert Ford, 25 September 1856; Separate Demurrers of Litsworth, Winter, Wilson, Wells, Handy, Allen, McCall, Mims, Hale, Hutson, and Jordan, 25 September 1856; Appeal, 25 September 1856; Index of Transcript
• Pages of related documents: 57

23 people are documented within petition 20285511

• 1 Enslaved
• 16 Defendants
• 1 Petitioner
• 5 Others

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Citation information

Repository: University of Arkansas at Little Rock, School of Law, Little Rock, Arkansas

• Arkansas Supreme Court, Records and Briefs

Subjects

• Taxation (enslaved)
• Widow's dower
• Hiring value (enslaved)
• Crops (Cotton)
• Title dispute (enslaved)
• Assessed Value (enslaved)
• Heirs dispute