HACKETT vs THOMPSON - Madison Co, GA James and Sarah Ann HACKETT vs. Joel THOMPSON, administrator of William THOMPSON, dec’d ***************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.rootsweb/~usgenweb/ Submitted by Jeanne Arguelles - ejarguelles@msn.com ***************************************************************** Madison County, GA (Found at the courthouse in a box labeled “Court Records 1800s”) Georgia County of Madson To his honor Garnett ANDREWS Judge of the Superior Court of the Northern Ciruit and holding jurisdiction in Chancery in said County & State, Humbly complaining showeth unto your honor, your Orator James S. HACKETT, your Oratrix Sarah Ann HACKETT his wife, formerly Sarah Ann THOMPSON, that, heretofore, to wit, in the land lottery in which the lands lying in the County of Troup were dispersed of by Lottery, Nelson THOMPSON was the fortunate drawer of lot of land number forty three in the fourth district of said county of Troup, being then a minor, to which said lot of land a grant was regularly paid by the State to the said Nelson THOMPSON, who departed this life before he attained full age, intestate, the said lot or tract of land constituting his entire estate or nearly so, and your Oratrix the said Sarah Ann HACKETT, formerly Sarah Ann THOMPSON, being his sister and only heir. And your Orator and Oratrix further show unto your honor that on the ninth day of November in the year Eighteen Hundred & Thirty One on or about that date, one William THOMPSON Junior obtained letters of administration in the estate of said Nelson THOMPSON deceased from the Honorable the Inferior Court of said county of Madison when sitting for Ordinary purposes, and took upon himself the burden of administration of the same - And your Orator & Oratrix expressly charge that the said THOMPSON adminstrator as aforesaid exposed said tract of land to sale on the first Tuesday in December Eighteen Hundred & thirty two and bid it in himself at the minimal price of eighty dollars, a tract of land which your Orator & Oratrix charge is now worth the sum of Two Thousand dollars or other large sum of money - And your Orator & Oratrix further charge that the said William THOMPSON Junior administrator as aforesaid, did on the self same day of said sale, to wit, on the first Tuesday of December Eighteen Hundred & thirty two, sell said tract of land to one John A. SMITH for the sum of Three Hundred Seventy Five dollars in cost, or some other large sum of money, which he never accounted for to your Orator & Oratrix or either of them - And upon which your Orator & Oratrix charge that they are entitled to legal interest from the date of said sale to the final settlement thereof - And your Orator & Oratrix further show unto your Honor, that the said William THOMPSON Junior administrator as aforesaid departed this life intestate on the day of in the year and one Joel THOMPSON of said county of Madison said out and obtained letters of administration on his estate from the said Inferior Court, sitting as a court of ordinary, and took upon himself the burden of administration of the estate of said William THOMPSON Junior deceased - And your Orator & Oratrix further show unto your Honor that their claim being due to them from the said William THOMPSON Junior as administrator of the estate of this brother the said Nelson THOMPSON is a debt of the highest dignity and is first to be paid out of the estate of the said William THOMPSON Junior deceased of which the said Joel THOMPSON is the administrator, and that the said Joel THOMPSON is liable & bound to pay them the said sum of Three hundred & seventy five dollars with interest, if not for the sale of said land with its rents, issues & profits thereof - And your Orator & Oratrix further show unto your Honor that they have requested the said Joel THOMPSON administrator as aforesaid to come to a fair and equitable settlement and account and to pay them the full amount due them as aforesaid, as in justice & equity he ought to have done. But now so it is, May it please your honor, that the said Joel THOMPSON, under ____ pretences, refuses to come to any account upon the subject or to settle the same --- To the end therefore, that the said Joel THOMPSON administrator as aforesaid, may ___, fill, & perfect ___ make to all & singular the premises as fully as if thereto particularly interrogated, to the best of his knowledge, information & belief. And that has be decreed to come to a fair and just account with your Orator & Oratrix touching the premises, that they may have decreed to them the said sum of three hundred & seventy five dollars with interest to be computed from the first Tuesday of December Eighteen Hundred & Thirty Two, up to the final _____, first to be paid out of the estate of the said William THOMPSON, Jr., deceased, and that your Orator & Oratrix may have such other & further relief as the year ___ shall seem meet & be agreeable to equity & good concience. May it please your Honor to grant unto your Orator & Oratrix the stated unit subpoena, to be directed to the said Joel THOMPSON administrator as aforesaid, requiring him under a penalty therein named to appear personally or by solicitor at the next Superior Court of Madison County, then & there to stand and abide by whatever may be decreed in the premises, & your Orator & Oratrix will ever pray. Wm STRICKLAND, complainants’ attorney We the jury find for complainants the sum of Thirty Two dollars and 57 cents with interest, from the sale ____ present being the amount left after deducting the expenses & disbursements of the administrator. (th Sept 1844. William SMITH, Forman Whereupon it is adjudged & decreed that the complainants do recover of the defendant the sum of Thirty Two dollars & fifty seven & a half cents for principal & the sum of Thirty Three dollars and seventy cents interest. Sept 9 1844. Wm STRICKLAND, complainants’ atty