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Joseph H Bradford}
Vs assigned}
Charles A Abercrombie}
{The State of Alabama
{To any coroner of Said State Greeting
You are hereby commanded without delay to
take Charles A Abercrombie if to be found in your county and him safely keep
so that you have his body before the Honorable the Judge of the Circuit Court at a
Court to be holden for Macon County on the fourth Monday after the third Monday
in March A D 1846 there and then to answer Joseph H Bradford assignee of
John H Thomas in a plea of Force & conversion &c to the damage of said
Plaintiff Five thousand Dollars and have you there and then this writ with
your endorsment thereover Witness Sampson Larries clerk of Said Court at
office this sixth day of April A D One thousand Eight Hundred and
firty six and of american Independence the Seventieth Year.
Sampson Larries Clerk
Issued the 6th day of April AD 1846
This action is instituted to recover of the defendent the sum of two thousand
five Hundred Dollars as damages sustained by him by the conversion by the said
defendent of the following property to wit three negroes Tom, Suckey, & Mary, One
pleasure carriage & harniss one pair Horses One Buggy & Harniss two mahogany
Bedstead 10 Mahogany chairs one mahogany sofa & one center Table all which is
the right & property of said Plaintiff and of great value to wit of the value of
twenty five hundred Dollars.
Dougherty & Cocke Plff Attys

The State of Alabama}
Macon County}
{In the Circuit Court of Said County Spring Term 1846
{Joseph H Bradford assignee pf John H Thomas by
attorney complaint of Charles A Abercrombie in custody &c of a plea of
Trover & conversion &c. For that whereas the said Plaintiff as such assignee as
aforesaid heretofore to wit on the twentieth day of February in the year Eighteen hundred
& forty Six to wit in the county aforesaid was lawfully possessed as of the property
if the said Plaintiff as assignee as aforesaid of three slaves to wit Tom, Luckey, & Mary
also of the following articles of Household Furniture to wit two Mahogany Bedsteads
two Mahogany chairs one mahogany sofa & one center Table also of One pleasure
carriage & Harniss One Buggy & Harniss and One pair of Horses of great value
to wit of the value of Twenty five Hundred Dollars and being possessed thereof
the said Plaintiff afterward to wit on the day and year aforsaid to wit in the
County aforesaid casually lost the said property out of his possession and the same
afterward to wit on the day & year last aforesaid to wit in the County aforesaid
Came to the possession of the said defendant by finding, Yet the said defendant
well knowing said slaves articles of Furniture Carriage & Harniss Buggy & Harniss
& pair of Horses to be the property of said Plaintiff and of right to belong and appertain
to him but contriving & intending to deceive and defraud the said Plaintiff
in this behalf hath not as yet delivered the same to the said Plaintiff or any
part or portion thereof although often requested so to do and hath hitherto
wholly refused so to do, and afterwards to wit on the day & year last aforsaid