Garland v. Denny & Colston

Judge Marshall

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This bill was filed in the Louisville Chancery Court by Denny and Colston, setting up debts as due to them from G. Garland, alledged to be a non-resident, and seeking the satisfaction of said debt by attaching in the hands of H. Bolton, of Louisville, and subjecting to sale a female slave, Caroline, alledged to be the property of Garland. Nancy Richardson, representing herself as the mother-in-law, and A. M. Garland, representing herself as the wife of G. Garland, being made defendants, on their petition, resist the sale of Caroline, on the…