Betts et al. v. Betts

their increase and the cotton mentioned in the bill: And that the executions and judgements at Law mentioned in the Bill be forever enjoined as to said slaves and cotton: And that on Complainants said next friend giving bond payable to defendant Gunn in the Sum of five hundred Dollars, conditioned to pay over to him the overplus of the price of the house and carriage charged as levied on, after deducting the sum of Eighty Dollars with interest thereon from this decree, in satisfaction of the value of the horse converted by defendant Betts, and for which a decree is rendered in favor of complainant - And further it is ordered that defendant Gunn + Betts pay the cost of the suit.

{Betts VS. Betts et al.}

In Chancery at Clayton Fall Term 1846 - When the hearing of defendants exceptions to the testimony of complainant it is ordered that all said exceptions be overruled - There was no evidence as to the identity between the Commissioner + defendant Reese -

And that a writ of error issued in said cause follows, to wit,

writ-of-error

The State of Alabama - TO the Register of the Court of Chancery for the ninth District and Southern Division of said State.

Because in the Record and prceedings + also in teh rendition of a decree in our said Court of Chancery for said Districy at the Extra Nov. Term thereof A.D. 1846 between Maria Betts by her next friend Solon Wellburn. Complainant and Elisha Betts, George W. Gunn, Samuel Harrison, Samuel N. Brown, Thomas A. Brannon, T.S. Jackson + Augustus Reese Adams of Alex Walker, deceased, are Defendants, as it is said manifest error hath intervened great damage of the said George W. Gunn, as by his complaint we are informed- We are willing that the error, if any there be,

should in due manner be corrected, and full of + speedy justice be done to the partied aforesaid, and therefore in this behalf do command you, that if a be therein rendered, that you send to us fully and distinctly under your seal the record and proceedings with all things concerning the same with this writ so that we may have them at the next term of one Supreme Court to be held in and for said State on the first Monday in June next. We may cause further to be done thereupon for correcting that error what of might according to the Laws of the State ought to be done. Witness Calvin Register of said Court of Chancery, at Office at Clayton this 17th day of May A.D. one thousand eight hundred + forty nine + of Amreican Independence the 73rd year C. Rist

I freed the 17th day of May A.D. 1849 And that notion issued as follows in said cause, to writ, The State of Alabama Barbour County

{To any Sheriff of the State of Alabama, to execute and return - Greeting - Maria Betts by her next friend Solo Wellburn VS Elisha Betts, George W. Gunn Sand. M Brown et al}

To the said Maria Betts or to Misses Bedford + Pugh her soliciters - Take notice that the said cause, in which at the Extra Nov. Term A.D. 1846 of the Chancery Court of said County a decree was rendered in favor of said Complainant and against said defendants has been taken by said George W. Gunn to the Supreme Court of said seats by writ-of-error returnable to the next term thereof to be holden at Montgomery on the first Monday in June next -

Witness Calvin Rist, Register of said Court at Office this the seventeenth day of May A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty nine, and of American Independence the seventy third year

C. Rist. Register

Issued the 17th day of May A.D. 1849. Executed on Breford + Pugh 18. May 1849. B. Williams Shff. by J. R.

The State of Alabama

J. Calvin Rist, Register + Master of the Court of Chancery for the ninth District and Southern Chancery Division of said state, do hereby certify that the foregoing one hundred and sixty six (166) pages, contain a full, true and perfect transcript of the record and proceedings had in said Court in the case of Maria Betts per Mrs. Annie Solon Wellburn, against Elisha Betts, George W. Gunn, et al.- now of record and on file in my Office; and that the writ of error, and notice to Complainant or her Soliciters and the Sheriffs return thereon is a true and perfect transcript thereof as now of file in my Office -

Given under my hand and private seal, (having no seal of Office) at Office, at Clayton this the twenty sixth day of May A.D. Eighteen hundred and forty nine -

C. Rist, Register

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