Mayes v. Smith

The defendant Smith, having a judgment against Benjamin M. Mayes, caused a writ oí fieri facias to issue, and the sheriff levied upon a number of slaves and some horned cat-*504tie, as Ms property. Among other slaves seized, was Harriet and her three children. Mayes made his escape to Texas with all the other slaves, and, after his departure, and before the day of sale, A. R. Splane, Esq., as his agent and attorney in fact, presented a petition in the name of Mayes, styling himself the natural tutor of his minor children, in which he claims the said Harriet and her children, and a few head of…