THOMAS JOSEY # 7882
Vs 10th
District Court
E.A. JOSEY
To the Honorable JAMES J HEEMS,
Judge of the District Court the 10th Judicial District of the state
of
Hers petitioner THOMAS JOSEY, a
resident of the parish of Caddo, in said state with respect shows to your Honor
that ELIJAH A> JOSEY, a resident of said parish is justly indebted to him in
the sum of One Hundred and Thirty Three dollars and Twenty cents, as wages for
his work as a laborer in working the crop for the year of Christ 1867 on the
farm or plantation on which the said ELIJAH A. JOSEY now lives, situate in said
Parish, done and preformed by petitioner at the special instance and request of
said defendant, and under a special contract to pay petitioner Twenty dollars
per month.
He further shows that he
preformed said labor faithfully according to said contract for the term of
seven months and twenty five days unto same loss of time when by agreement
between petitioner and defendant has petitioner
ceased to labor by which there
was and is now due petitioner upon settlement the said sum of One Hundred and
Thirty Three dollars and twenty cents.
Petitioner further shows that
there was previus to the to the institution of the suit of STACY & POLARD
against said defendant, and the suit of J.A REYNOLDS, against said JOSEY
defendant, now pending in your honorable Court, in the possession of said
defendant, when said farm or plantation when which he preformed said labor, and
of the crop of grass 1867 produced in part by the labor of the petitioner
during said year of 1867 corn & other produce when which petitioner has a privilege for the payment of said sum of money, but that waits of requisition issued in the
above named suits, and said corn was seized by virtue thereof, and after words
once S. HOLLINGSWORTH sued out a writ of requisition and had said corn seized upon claim set up by
him, which is also pending in your Honorable Court.
Petitioner states that he claims
the payment of the above demanded sum, a privilege on the corn seized as stated
above.
He therefore prays that the said
defendant be sited to answer this petition, and that he here judgment for said
sum of money, interest, and all cost, and that his privilege be recognized and
embraced. He further prays that said HOLLINGSWORTH, STACEY & POLLARD, J,H,
REYNOLDS and JOHN J HOPE Sheriff, who seized the corn under sequestration in
care of STACY & POLLARD, against JOSEY, & REYNOLDS against JOSEY, and
the Coroner BLACKWELL, who seized the corn under sequestration in the care of
HOLLINGSWORTH, against all the above named – STACY & POLLARD, JOSEY,
REYNOLDS and HOPE Sheriff, be cited to answer to this petition and that he here
judgment declaring his privilege superior to all claims set up by said
HOLLINGSWORTH and that all seized corn re seized be due and bound liable for the payment of his said debt, and
to be paid according to priority of privilege as between him and said STACET
& POLLARD and said J.H. REYNOLDS and any they here by preys for all c his
costs, interest and for general relief.
J.G.
HEEMS
THOMAS JOSEY
Vs
ELIJAH A. JOSEY
In this case by reason of the
law and the evidence, & the confession of the defendant in writing filed in
this case, it is ordered, adjudged and decreed that the plaintiff THOMAS JOSEY,
do have and recover of the defendant ELIJAH A. JOSEY, the sum of One Hundred
and Thirty Three & 20/100 dollars with legal interest from date, to be paid
by privilege out of the proceeds of the
crop being now sequestered in the suits of STACEY and POLLARD vs E A JOSEY
#7749 & J H REYNOLDS vs E A JOSEY #
7751 pending in this court, for which let execution issue .
This done and signed in open
Court this
Judge 10th Judicial Dist
Of
THOMAS JOSEY
vs
ELIJAH A. JOSEY
I, ELIJAH A. JOSEY, defendant in the
suit entitled as above, hereby waive citation & service and all legal forms
and delays & confess judgment in favor of the plaintiff THOMAS JOSEY, for
the amount claimed in his petition, namely One Hundred and Thirty Three 20/100,
and I also acknowledge that this debt is due to plaintiff for labor done by him
in the year 1867, on the farm cultivated by me and under my management in Caddo
Parish, and that plaintiff is entitled to a privilege on the produce of said
farm as claimed in his petition.
Signed by Me in The presence of the
subscribing witnesses this
Witnesses
A H Leonard
E A JOSEY
Henry G Hall