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The State of Alabama}
Mobile County }

Plea before the Honorable John Bragg
Judge of the Circuit Court for the sixth
Judicial Circuit of the State of Alabama at a time thereof
begun and holden in and for Mobile County on the 3rd
Monday after the 4th monday of March A. D. 1848.

Writ}

The State of Alabama to any sheriff of the said State writing
you and hereby commanded To summon the President Directers
and company of the Bank of Mobile if to be found in your
county, to be and appear before the Honorable the Circuit Court
to be holden for Mobile County, at the place for holding the said
Court on the fourth monday after the fourth monday of October
1846 to answer to William Crawford in a plea of [[trespass?]]
on the case to the damage of the plaintiff Twenty five Thousand
dollars. Herein fail not, and have you them there this this writ
Witness Augustus Brooks clerk of the Circuit Court onr aforesaid
this 20th day of August in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand
Eight Hundred and forty six.

Issued this 28th day of August in the year 1846.

Attest A Brook Clerk

Cause of action"

This action is brought to receive damages for the tortious issue
and levy of an Execution from the County Court of Mobile County
bearing date in June 1846 against this defendant & others; and
also for the [?] & conversion of Twenty nine slaves & seventeen
mules & horses - and for causing the death of a negro slave
named Emily by this tortious and illegal proceeding.

Campbell Chandler for pff .

Shffs Return "

Received 29 ' August 1846 and executed August 31st
1846 by serving a copy of the within writ on Jonathen Emmanuel president
Protem, and a copy of the [?] on Thomas W English Cushin
of said Mobile Bank.

[Inezr?] Shuggins shff Mobile County
By O. W. Austin Deputy Sheriff

Declaration "
The State of Alabama} Circuit Court
Mobile County } November Term 1846

William Crawford by his attorney complains of the
President Directers &Co of the Bank of Mobile, who were summoned
to appear in a plea of trespass on the case, per that whereas
the said plaintiff before the happening of the grievances hereafter
mentioned was possessed of his own property at Washington
County to wit in the State aforsaid on the first day of
June in the Year aforsaid, Viz of the negro slaves Silvia,
Alfred , Edward, alias Ed , Bob, Alexander, Oliver, Nanny,
Adelim, and her two children, Alzo, Iam, Betsey, & Louisa ,
Nat, Alfred, Windser, George, Gaston, Harry, George, Pleasant,
Imy, Eliza and her three Children, Harriett and Eighteen
mules each of which slaves are of the value of seven
hundred dollars and each of the said mules were