Wafer v. Hemken

The defendant, B. Hemken, a judgment creditor of Joel Wafer, sued out a fieri facias, under which he seized certain slaves as belonging to his debtor. Thomas Wafer, the present plaintiff, claimed three of these slaves, enjoined the sale, and prayed for damages for their illegal detention. A motion to set aside the injunction having been overruled, the defendant filed his answer, praying for the dissolution of the injunction, with damages, and alleging fraud and collusion between Thomas and Joel Wafer. There was a verdict for the plaintiff, with $150 damages. This verdict was afterwards set…