Robert Gleed Court Records: Chancery Court
Robert Gleed vs. Jacob Crump & Lawrance Harris, February 1870
The State of Mississippi
Lowndes County
Chancery Court,
February Term, 1870.
Robert Gleed
v
Jacob Crump
Lawrance Harris
To the Honl the court aforesaid.
The Bill of complaint of Robert Gleed of the city of Columbus Lowndes County Miss. exhibited against Jacob Crump and Lawrance Harris of same county and and state, showeth unto your Honor him the said Robert Gleed humbly complaining that heretofore to wit on the 21st day of June 1869 your orator and Jacob Crump & Lawrance Harris entered into an agreement & contract in the form of an aggricultual Lien, and that on the day & year above mentioned the said defendants executed their written obligation to the above named plaintiff for the purchase of a Horse, giving a Lien on their crop and upon the aforesaid Horse for one hundred & forty Dollars due and payable on the First day of November 1869, which said Lien is herewith filed, and made part of this bill, marked Ex “A” & was duly filed by the clerk of the circuit court as required by law.
Your orator therefore prays, that the Clerk of the aforesaid court, be com-manded and required to issue a writ of sequestration commanding the sheriff to take into his possession, the property which is liable on said Crop lien to wit, the crop grown by the said defendants & the horse in question as expressed in said exhibit herewith filed and prayed to be taken as part of this complaint, and to hold the same until the further decision of the Court or Judge, or until the defendant from whose possession the same is to be taken, shall enter into bond with good sureties payable to the complainant in Double the value of the property, according to the statute in such cases made and provided, and that other, and farther relief as may seem right may be granted your orator
And your orator will ever Pray &c
Robert Gleed
Sol and Orator
Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 10th of November AD 1869
J Stallings Clerk of Chancery Court
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Ex A
$140.00
On the first day of November 1869, we or either of us promise to pay Robert Gleed or order the sum of One hundred & forty Dollars, value received, this note is given for a horse, sold & advanced by said Robert Gleed, to enable us to make & complete our present crop, and without such horse we could not make said crop, and we agree that this note shall be a lien on the horse sold & also upon our growing crop for this year, June 21st, 1869.
Jacob Crump (X his mark)
Lawrence Harris (X his mark)
Witness
J. M. Arnold
J T Gaston
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The State of Mississippi, Lowndes County.
To the Sheriff of Lowndes County — Greeting:
We Command you to Summon Jacob Crump & Lawrance Harris if to be found in your County, to be and appear before the Judge of our next Chancery Court at a term thereof to be holden at the Court House in the town of Columbus, on the First Monday of February 1870, then and there to answer to the Bill of Complaint of Robert Gleed & further to do and receive whatever our said Court may consider & decree in the premises
Herein Fail Not, and have you then and there this Writ.
Witness, J. STALLINGS, Clerk of the Chancery Court of said County, with the seal of said Court in the margin hereof, this, the 11 November A.D., 1869, the same being the day of the issuance hereof.
J Stallings Clerk.
By H J Richard Deputy Clerk.
Robert Gleed, Plaintiff’s Attorney.
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The State of Mississippi Lowndes County
To the Sheriff of Lowndes County Greeting
Whereas Robert Gleed complainant, has lately in our Chancery Court of said county exhibited his bill of complaint against Jacob Crump & Lawrance Harris Defendants, and the writ of subpoena issued thereon to said defendants to appear at our next Chancery Court to be held at the Court House in the town of Columbus in said county, on the First Monday of February AD 1870 and the said complainant upon the act of the Legislature for encouragement of agriculture” has prayed this writ of sequestration to be issued against the said defendants for the satisfaction of his lien to the amount of one hundred and forty Dollars, as set forth in said Bill.
We therefore command you to seize and take into your possession the said defendants crop & horse mentioned as subject to lien if to be found in your County and hold the same until the further order of said Court, or until the said Defendants shall enter into bond with good surities payable to the said complainant in Double the Value of said property to be assessed by you Conditioned to have the property forth coming to abide the decree of said Court in said Cause made.
Herein fail not & have at said Court this writ
witness my hand and seal of office at Columbus this Nov 11th AD 1869
J. Stallings Clk
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I hereby constitute and appoint W. A. Wood, my Special Deputy to Execute and return this process
S Kline shff
Nov 12. 1869
Executed the within Writ by taking into my possession One Black Mare, and one Thousand and nineteen pounds of seed Cotton.
S Kline shff
W A Wood
Nov 17. 1869