Description
"On July 16, 1853, John C. Brady became indebted to Wisdom(?) Snider/Snider for goods in the amount of $518.90. On Feb. 20, 1854, Brady executed a mortgage to Larkin Fleshman conveying Lots 11 & 12, Block 31 and Lot 4, Block 29, Platte City, “also a negro boy named Jack, also a wagon and two horses.” On March 22, 1854 Snider obtained judgment against Brady for the amount of $393.35. On November 28, 1854, Fleshman obtained a court judgment to foreclose on the mortgage and sell the properties. Brady owed Fleshman $431.58. On May 29, 1855, an execution was issued against Brady directing the Sheriff to sell Brady’s real estate (part of Lot 4, Block 29, in Platte City). Pitt bought the property and alleged “that in obtaining the judgment and purchasing the property, Pitt acted as the attorney of and agent for Snider.” Pitt alleges that the value of property (Lot 11 & 12, Jack, wagon & horses), except the lot he bought, is $1800.00. Per the 1854 Fleshman judgment & execution, the Sheriff advertised the sale of the property for Tuesday, Nov. 26, 1860. Pitt petitions the Court to issue an order directing the Sheriff to sell Lots 11 & 12, Block 31 , and the “negro boy named Jack, also a wagon and two horses” but not Lot 4, Block 29, Platte City, unless the proceeds aren’t enough to pay off Fleshman’s judgment. Alternatively, Pitt wants the Court to substitute Pitt for Fleshman as the beneficiary of the Sheriff’s sale.
Missouri Archives Judicial Records Historical Database has an on-line record and scanned case file images.Date(s) of Creation
11/26/1860
