Lenoir-Jones County NcArchives Court.....Huggins, Loftin V. 1828
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Source: Nc Archives
Written: 1828

#1604 – LOFTIN vs HUGGINS – 1828

NC Supreme Court Case found at the NC Archives

At Superior Court in Lenoir Co on 3rd Mon after the 4th Mon of Sept in 1828 – 
Joseph Loftin and his attorney George Attmon brought a bill of complaint 
against William Huggins on a plea of trespass – Huggins lived in Jones Co – 
asked for damages of $500 - attorneys for Huggins were John H. Bryan and 
Wright C. Stanley – jurors were Joshua Rouse, Stanton Taylor, Noah Rouse, 
Rich. Pickle, John Parker, Richard Moor, John King, Thomas Walters, Joseph 
Tilghman, Moses Westbrook, Reuben Clark, Lemuel Baker – found in favor of the 
plf with damages of $313.50

The case was to recover the value of Negro woman Leah and child – the plf 
offered into evidence judgments issued in Lenoir Co where John and John C. 
Washington were plf and Rigdon White was the def – it appears on 11 Dec 1827 
Rigdon White was the owner of the property consisting of Leah and child – at 
court in Jones Co on the "2nd Mon of Dec 1827 upon which was indorsed levied 
upon eight Negroes of which the two in question were a part" - the jury found 
for the plf but a new trial was ordered

We, William Huggins, Richard Reynolds and Emanuel Jarman owe Joseph Loftin 
$200 – 15 Oct. 1828


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