Charles Saunders, a free man of color, states that he was able to purchase his wife Matilda, a slave, from slave trader David Ross, with the financial assistance of Charles Kastenbine. The price agreed upon between Saunders and Ross was $600. Saunders claims that he arranged to make monthly payments to Kastenbine on said purchase. Matilda has since given birth to a boy, and Charles Kastenbine has died. The heirs and administrators of Kastenbine now claim that Saunders's payments were to hire Matilda and not payments towards her purchase. Saunders asks that the defendants be restrained “from taking seizing or in anywise disturbing said slaves or hindering him your orator in & from the quiet & peaceable possession & use of the said woman Matilda and her child George Saunders till the final trial of this suit” and that the Kastenbine heirs be prevented from removing his wife and child to places unknown.
Result: Dismissed.
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