Non-payment of a promissory note for the hire of Henry

This post is part of an ongoing project to record names of enslaved people of Greene County, Georgia I find in historical records. 

Proceedings of Greene Superior Court – September Term 1858

No. 40 Greene Superior Court – March Term 1858.

H. H. King vs. John W. Jackson and James M. Lankford, Principals, and A. L. Willis, Security – Complaint. $125.00.

On the twenty-fifth day of December next, we promise to pay H. H. King or bearer one hundred and twenty-five dollars for the hire of negro fellow Henry. We also agree to furnish said negro with two good suits of summer clothes and a good winter suit, hat, blanket, and shoes.

Greenesboro, March 11th, 1857
J. W. Jackson, James M. Lankford, A. L. Willis (Security)

Georgia, Greene County. To the Superior Court of said County. The petition of Henry H. King showeth that John W. Jackson and James M. Lankford of said county as Principals and Alfred L. Willis also of said county as Security are indebted to him in the sum of one hundred and twenty five dollars besides interest on a note dated the eleventh day of March eighteen hundred and fifty seven and due on the twenty fifth day of December next thereafter which said note they the said John W. and James M. as principals and the said Alfred L. as Security refuses to pay. Wherefore your petitioner prays process may issue requiring the said John W. Jackson and James M. Lankford, as principals and the said Alfred L. Willis as Security to be and appear at the net Superior Court for said county to answer your petitioners complaint.

Yelverton P. King, Plaintiff’s Attorney

Georgia, to the Sheriff of Greene County—Greeting: H. H. King vs. John W. Jackson and James M. Lankford, Principals and Alfred L. Willis, Security – Complaint

The defendants are hereby required, personally or by attorney, to be and appear at the Superior Court to be held in and for the County of Greene on the second Monday in March next, then and there to answer the plaintiff’s demand in an action of complaint. As in default thereof, said Court will proceed as to justice shall appertain.

Witness The Honorable Robert V. Hardeman, Judge of said Court this 15th of February 1858.

Vincent Sanford, Clerk

Personally served A. L. Willis with a copy of the within Writ February 17th, 1858. – C. C. Norton, D. Sheriff

Personally served James M. Lankford with a copy of the within Writ February 19th, 1858. – C. C. Norton, D. S.

Served a copy of the within Writ on John W. Jackson by leaving it at his residence, his most notorious place of abode. February 20th, 1858. – C. C. Norton, D. Shff. March Term 1858 Default

September Term1858 Judgment Confessed. We confess judgment to the Plff. for the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars with interest and costs with liberty of appeal. – Cone and Fuller, Defts. Atty’s. Principal $125.00, interest $6.29

Whereupon it is considered and adjudged by the Court that the plaintiff do recover of John W. Jackson and James M. Lankford as principals and Alford L. Willis as Security the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars for his principal sum due and the further sum of six dollars and twenty-nine cents. Interest and the further sum of [blank] for costs. 13th September 1858. – Yelverton P. King, Plff’s. Attorney

Recorded the 4th day of November 1858. – Vincent Sanford, Clerk

Reference

Greene County, Georgia, Special Proceedings Records 1856–1860, images 91–92, FamilySearch.