Cox v. Robinson

The petition alleges that in April, 1830, the defendant Robinson commenced a suit by attachment in the District Court of the First District, against the plaintiff, and one Joshua Cox, to recover about $4600 with interest, which he alleged to be due to him on a promissory note executed by Joshua Cox and the present plaintiff, by virtue of which writ fourteen slaves belonging to the plaintiff were seized ; that for the purpose of obtaining the writ of attachment, the defendant Robinson entered into bond, and gave Nathan Morse as his security, for the sum of $7000, conditioned that they would…