General Petition Information
Abstract: William North joins his sister, Polly North Samples, and her husband, Alexander, in asking the court to enjoin John Allen, administrator of the estate of their "ancestor," Gilbert North, from "paying out any of said estate to any person" until the court can rule on the validity of North's will. The petitioners charge Pleasant North, Pleasant Rutherford, and Pleasant's wife, Minerva, with destroying Gilbert's will "in order to defeat and defraud [them] out of the provisions therein made." They allege that the trio kept "the old man Continually drunk and deranged" in the period prior to his death "for the express purpose of controlling" him. During this time, Gilbert conveyed the majority of his "negro property," fairly worth $8000, to various people, leaving the slaves "incumbered with fraudulent claims hanging over them" at his death. They ask the court to cancel these bills of sale and to put the slaves "in the hands of a receiver" until the court's final decree.
Result: granted; appealed; reversed; dismissed
# of Petition Pages: 9
Related Documents: Opinion, ca. July 1846; Decree, ca. 7 July 1846
PETITIONER's:
NORTH, William - white male
SAMPLES, Alexander - white male
SAMPLES, Polly North - white female
DEFENDENTS:
ALLEN, Elizabeth North - white female
ALLEN, George - white male
ALLEN, John - white male
ALLEN, John - white male
DENTON, Samuel - white male
DENTON, Susan North - white female
JENKINS, William - white male
NORTH, Anderson - white male
NORTH, James - white male
NORTH, Pleasant - white male
RAMSEY, William - white male
RUTHERFORD, Minerva North - white female
RUTHERFORD, Pleasant - white male
STUART, John - white male
WOOD, Alexander - white male
WOOD, Nancy North - white female
