Bishop vs. Bishop
Copied by Gladys B Wilson, Glasgow, KY March 1976
CATHERINE BISHOP VS.LOWRY BISHOP- DIVORCE
BARREN COUNTY CIRCIUT COURT NO 849 - Filed 12 July 1836
To the Honorable the Judge of the Barren Circuit Court in Chancery sitting humbly Complaining Your Oratrix Catherine Bishop would respectfully represent unto your honor that many years ago she intermarried with a certain Lourey Bishop with whom she fondly hoped to spend her life in as much happiness as falls to the lot of poor frail human nature, but her hopes were vain and delusive. Your Oratrix conducted herself towards her husband as a dutiful affectionate and virtuous wife should do. Your Oratrix would further state & do Charge that the Conduct of her husband and his treatment to her has been Cruel in the extreme, he having given himself up to Constant habits of Disipation and debauchery and every species of baseness, and has falsely, wickedly & Malisiciously Charged your Oratrix with incontinance and by his Beastly Cource of Conduct & threats put your Oratrix in fear of great personal violence and in fear of her life, and on the __day of__ ordered Your Oratrix off from his house & Home and turned her out on the Charities of a Cold hard hearted world after falsely traducing her Character, with out the means of Support or without making any provision for her and three little children of one of your Oratrix Dec'd sister that your Oratrix and her said husband had agreed to take & raise, Your Oratrix & her husband having no Children of there own, two of said children was taken by them in the lifetime of your Oratrix Sister one at about 9 months of age, one at about 3 months of age and the other at the death of its Mother when the Child was about one week old, all, of which they have raised for several years and they now feel as near to your Oratrix as if they were her own children.
Your Oratrix would further state that some years ago on the day of __ when your. Oratrix was like to die as she believed, at her instance & request her said husband Conveyed to her two negro girls to be given or willed by your Oratrix to the Children they had mutually agreed to raise, which negro has since grown up and have two children each, and their present Situation is an incumbrance to your Oratrix instead of a help and means of support.
Your Oratrix would further state and do charge that Said Lourey Bishop who is made a Defendant to this bill has now in his possession and is the owner of an estate Consisting of six tracts of land containing 1834 acres of great Value and 23 slaves named as follows: Gatewood, Judy, Bob, John, Billy, Sena, America, Isaac, Luvena, Marietta, Luvina, Rachel, Margaret, Stephen, Reuben, Rose, Sally, George, Charles, Huston, Dave, Let & Dina; household and kitchen furniture, Horses, hogs, Cattle & sheep with Carts, Waggons, farming tools which estate is worth at least as your Oratrix believes $20,000., and that said Deft has been for a long space of time by his threats of personal violence & his other brutal & inhuman Course of Conduct towards your Oratrix to drive her from his house which he compelled her to leave on the __ day of __ without any means of subsistence except as before stated.
Your Oratrix would further state that at the time she married said Defendant he was poor and that she had a considerable property and that said Deft has now in his possession the following named slaves that he got with your Oratrix at there marriage, or their increase (towit) Gagewood, Huston, Levina, Stephen, & Marietta, besides one that he has sold and the two Girls conveyed to your oratrix, and that at the time of her marriage she had considerable personal property worth $___, and that by her care & frugal Course of Conduct in Managing her household aftairs She had Contributed greatly to increase the Defts wealth.
Your Oratrix would further state & so charge that said Defendant as she is informed & verily believes) has been in the constant practice of Violating the Marriage Contract for many years by acts of Adultery with every prostitute he could find, and that he has been in the habit of Spending a great portion of his time with one of the basest prostitutes that the World can produce, and Claims her & calls her his wife & bosts that he has two Children by her.
Your Oratrix would further state that she has been informed & believes & So charges that Said Bishop has threatened that he would Sell all his property and leave the Country and thereby prevent Your Oratrix from procuring a support from him or his property.
Inasmuch as your Oratrix is remediless at law & can only be relieved in Equity She prays your Honor the premises considered for the Commonwealths writ of suppena directing &C. Compelling the said Deft a true and perfect answer to make to all & singular the allegations of this Bill upon his Corporeal Oath in view of his future accountability as fully as if again repeated & compel him to render a full fair & perfect Scedule of all his estate of every description, Also of the Cash he has on hand and debts owing to him, who on & when Due) and Injoin the said Deft from selling or removing or otherwise disposing of any of said slaves or personal property he has in his possession untill the matters and things in this bill contained can be heard in Equity, and on a final hearing order & decree to your Oratrix so much of the personal property & so many of the slaves in his possession as is equitable & Just, taking into consideration the Children they have Mutually agreed to raise & educate and such portion of the several tracts of land as is equitable & Just, and order and decree that your Oratrix be forever divorced & set free from said Defendant and that she be restored to all the priviledges of an Unmarried woman and from time to time during the pendency of this suit order & decree the Deft pay Your Oratrix such sums as is equitable & Just for her support & for the support of the Children agreed to be raised, having due regard to the value of this Defts estate, and as in duty bound will ever pray, &C.
/s/ Tompkins & McFerran for Compit
INJUNCTION - Dated 18 July 1836. Lowry Bishop & Jas Murrell & F Gorin, his security, made bond to Catherine Bishop for $7000. and restraining Lowry Bishop from running off, removing out of the State or otherwise disposing of the following named negroes (named all that were mentioned in the bill), and all his personal property consisting of stock, household and kitchen furniture, farming tools.
DEED OF TRUST - Dated 7 March 1831
Know all men by these presents that I, Lowry Bishop, of Barren County and State of Kentucky for and in consideration of sufficient causes me thereunto moving doe hereby convey unto James Hall of the County and State aforesaid in trust for the use and benefit of my wife Catherine Bishop, the right and title of my two negro girls Eliza and Palina and their increase if any they should hereafter have.
To have and to hold in trust for the use and benefit of my said Wife Catharine during her life and at her death to be delivered over to such person or.persons as she my said wife shall devise them to or convey them to, be by gift or otherwise, and my said trustee is hereby fully vested with the titles to said negro girls, etc
Test: Richard Garnett /s/ Lowry Bishop
Reuben B Garnett James Hall
Recorded Barren Co Ky 22 April 1831
AMENDED BILL FILED 20 Sept 1836
Your Oratrix Catherine Bishop states that sometime before she was compelled to leave the defendants home, from the continual abuse heaped upon her by the defendant; after trying every means in her power by a gentle and Submissive deportment towards the Deft to cause him to cease his Outrage towards her, and finding that his Hatred and ill treatment increased),altho she thought her life in iminent jeopardy from him, yet from the distressed state of her feelings she regards her life as of not much consequence, and in this State of wretchedness She determined to try to display to Said Deft a determination to defend herself against his abuses by threatening him, and accordingly on one occasion when he threw out a volley of abuse on her she took into her hand an empty pistol which said Deft had in the house & told him with as much apparent boldness as she could muster, that she would no longer bear his abuse, and that if he used such language to her again She would Shoot him, upon which he seemed to manifest some alarm, and withdrew, and for a while abated in his abuse, but it was not long until he commenced again, and your Oratrix still entertaining some hope that by seeming to be resolute in her defence she could deter him from his violence towards her on another attack she picked up a small strap of Iron & told him she would use it on him if he did not desist, but she found her efforts in this way vain, and that he was determined to take such measures with her as would force her to leave him, for he told her she should not remain at his house, and that so soon as he could get her off he intended to take home Caty Crawley, the prostitute in the Original bill mentioned with whom he had been living in adultery for some years, and that your Oratrix should have no part of his property.
Your Oratrix would state that upon becoming entirely certain from the course pursued by the Deft that he was determined to drive her off without any means of support, she took & sent off three beds and their clothing and some few other small articles which she now has in possession, and she went to the Store of Murrel & Feland in Glasgow & bought of them about $150. worth of goods which she left in the store articles which she considered would be indispensible for her in the event of her being driven from her home, which goods the Deft has directed & forbidden the said Murrell & Feland to let the Complt have or any portion of them and refused to pay for them if she were permitted to take them off and the said Murrell & Feland now refuses to let your Oratrix have any portion of paid goods; and which turned out to be the fact for in a few days afterwards the Deft preemptorily Ordered her to leave her house, which order she in deep distress & anguish Obeyed.
Some few days before her departure from the Defts house she Rec'd in his absence $30. which his waggoner sent home to him, & which she still has. All the above mentioned articles of property & money if she can be permitted to retain them She is willing & Desireous should be taken into consideration on the final trial of this cause.
She further states that he, the Deft has an interest in the estate of John Mayfield Sr, Dec'd, which he obtained by purchase from one or more of the heirs, and which she alleges is worth $800. or $1000; the Deft is called upon to state the amount & value of his interest in s'd estate & what it consists of - She prays as in her original Bill.
/s/ Tompkins Ec.
ANSWER OF LOWRY BISHOP - Filed 22 March 1837
This Respondent saving to himself all manner of exceptions to the statements and manifold errors; etc . . States that he admits that he intermarried with the Complt anticipating a life of much happiness in which he has been greatly disappointed, for instead of Peace, Comfort and happiness, he has had trouble, Vexation and misery. He admits that for some time after the marriage he & Complt lived Agreeably if not happily together, but unfortunately Complt had no children, which she desired greatly. Your Respt states that it was his desire to make Complt happy, there was no will of hers which came to your Respt's knowledge save one, that of children, which was not satisfied as far as he was able to satisfy it.
Your Respt states that the Complt was so desirous of having children that he, to gratify her, permitted her to bring to his house a niece of hers, and afterward another, and also a nephew no ways related to your Respt, except by his marriage with Complt. And he, without being under any obligations to provide for said children, simply to gratify Complt, fed & clothed said Children & sent them to School as they became old enough. Your Respt states that for several years the Complt has so demeaned herself as to forfeit his esteem & regard, That while he was labouring night and day to make a comfortable support and to lay up something for old age, she was forming habits of an illicit character. He was well assured for several years that she had no respect or love or affection for your Respt and but little respect for her own character, yet notwithstanding your Respts knowledge of her Conduct he was not disposed to abandon her believing that by his good conduct toward her, reclaim her, he bore with her conduct as much as he could, she at last became so loose and unguarded in her conduct, that it became Publick & was talked of among their neighbors. Your Respt endeavored to prevent its circulation & entered upon an enquiry of the facts of a particular charge of incontinance on her part, but found that it could not do to press the matter, & so informed the Complt & remonstrated with her, and advised her to act more prudently and virtuously, but it availed nought
Your Respt States that her conduct. had such an influence over him as to render him a very unhappy man and to cause him to do acts which he is sorry for, but which did not affect the Complt. Your Respt has long known that Complt desired to have all my property to herself & her relations in exclusion of his own relatives, states that not long before she abandoned him she charged him with making a will and disposing of a part of his property to his own relatives & others, and insisted that he should give his property to her & the children which she had brought into his home, and when she found that she could not influence him to dispose of his property according to her wish & desire, she became more turbalent and Quarrelsome than usual and sought to obtain by threats a Deed of Gift of the most valuable part of your Respt's estate, she threatened to abandon your Respt & refused to have any intercourse with your Respt and would not sleep with him. He charges that she procured one of his houses to be burnt down, and another to be pulled down, that she excited many individuals to threaten & abuse your Respt, believing that they would force him to convey to Compit all or mostly all of his property.
He states that he was threatened by letter with being "Scroggined" A short time afterward in the dead hours of night while he was asleep in his own bed in his own house, he was seized by a number of ruffians and blindfolded and gagged, was taken some distance from his house in his Shirt and drawers only, most inhumanely and brutally Cow hided, the said persons all the time requireing your Respt to make a Deed of Gift of a number of slaves to Complt & threatened that if he did not do it by a certain time they would kill him. Your Respt has no doubt that Complt knew all about it and procured the said whipping & beating. Even after all this & while he was suffering greatly from the whipping aforesaid, he caused Complt to be informed that he was desirous to live with her and to have all their difficulties adjusted, but she refused to live with him, and said she would never sleep with him again, but that if he had any propositions about a division of property she would hear them. She was still living in Complts (Respts?) dwelling house & continued to do so for some time, weeks after, trying to, by every means to Compel Respt to make her a Deed of Gift of a good share of his property.
When she found she could not prevail on your Respt to make a Deed of Gift of what property she desired, she changed her batteries and after trying what effect she could have upon your Respt with a free use of her tongue in compelling your Respt to mistreat her she drew and cocked a pistol and presented it to the breast of your Respt and threatened to shoot him, and at another time drew a bar of iron on your Respt, and calling upon him to drive her away - while excited at her conduct he told her he would not drive her away, but she might go away. - he denies that he forced or compelled her to leave his house, or that he ever used any violence on her, or that she was afraid that he might use any violence on her - on the contrary he admits that he was afraid of her - that she had attempted two times to alarm him and had succeeded. He was well apprised that she would mistreat her and drive her away so that she could draw alimony from him & a divorce, and to obtain her ends she used every means to cause him to so do. He had proposed to her that she might remain in the house and he would support her, which she refused to do.
Denies that she conducted herself towards him in a dutifully and virtuous manner - for he expressly charges that she has been guilty…………
…………………….by his debauchery against every high minded & honorable impulse, can he believe that his taking to his embraces a filthy and abandoned prostitute and staying with her days, and perhaps weeks, in succession in open adultery, which she avres to be the fact, does not affect her?
The house Deft speaks of as having burned down was a Cabin in which he intended to keep & support the prostitute mentioned, and some of the people of the county, she supposes, knew of his disgraceful conduct & his cruel treatment of her, and destroyed of their own voluntary motion (the cabin), that she did not procure them to do it.
As for any menances which they or others may have made against Deft she is not responsible for them, nor for any punishment inflicted on him - she did not procure them to inflict any punishment on him -One thing however, she is certain of, that he did not receive one stripe amiss. He richly deserved all that he got & more, but it was not by her contrivance.
It is false that Deft continued to want to live with her, he is living in open adultery with C Crawley, and has for several years, he says himself for seven years. He may call another house his home, but he devotes a large portion of his time with her, day after day, and night after night, sometimes for more than a week at a time, and not attempting to disguise their amours. The Deft drove her away from his own wickedness on or about 10th day of July 1836, and to afford him a better opportunity of indulgence in his unhallowed intercourse with the strumpet above mentioned. He threatened to cowhide her, the Complt, if she did not leave his house & acknowledged openly and publickly that he owned Caty Crawley as his wife, denying that Respt was his wife………..
LOWRY BISHOP ANSWER - Filed 24 Nov 1837
Lists judgements that various persons and businesses have obtained against him listing amounts - that all of his lands have been sold to satisfy the judgernents, that all the debts were contracted before the commencement of this suit, that his interest in the Mayfield estate had been sold to help satisfy judgements, that the land sold for little, not near its value, that 3 of the neqroes, Huston, Charles, and George have been sold to satisfy debts, then lists others that he sold. States that he is greatly afflicted and is not able to wait upon himself and shall in all probability remain so for the reminder of his life -----
Repeats that if Complt will return to his house she shall be well treated & taken care of and he again calls upon her and requests her to return, and he will endeavour to comfort and support her as long as he lives.
DEPOSITIONS - Taken 16 May 1837 at the law office of William R McFerran at the Town of Glasgow, Barren Co., Ky.(Abstracted)
GRANVILLE HALL
I was present when Lowry Bishop ordered her (Complt) off his place and told her she had been there as long as he intended her to stay, do not recollect the time, nor such of what took place , but she left as soon as she could get ready & start. I resided at the house of the Deft (Bishop) some two months previous to the time Complt left there and frequently heard Deft order her to leave his place and told her repeatedly that if she did not leave by a certain time that he had set that he would have her taken out and Cowhided, would take her work from her & throw it in the fireplace and out of doors, and always used distasteful language to her.
Witness stated that he frequently heard Bishop say he had children by Caty Crawley & that he kept her as a wife, and that he the Deft was the Father of two mulattoes he had about the house, that he, the Deft supported Caty Crawley in provisions and clothing and gave them money whenever they wanted it, that he was frequently in the habit of leaving home for periods of time and said that he had been to Caty Crawley's.
Stated that Deft told him that he had been advised to drive off some children Deft & his wife had taken to raise & then she, the wife, would be afraid to stay at home. That he had seen Bishop shake a cowhide over her and say that if she did not mind he would give it to her. Stated that he had heard her abuse and threaten the Deft sometimes. That frequently he, (Bishop) would come into the room where she (Mrs Bishop) was and call the child of the Mulatto that he said was his child to Come to its Grandfather and have heard him tell her that he kept Katy Crawley and call her his other wife. The eldest of the mulattos that he said were his children is about 17 years old and the other 9 or 10.
Stated that once he had seen Complt draw a pistol at Deft and threaten to shoot him, that the pistol had been loaded and she had requested him (Granville Hall) to unload it, which he did, so it was empty at the time she presented it at Bishop. At another time she drew a bar of iron that was used for a fire poker and was about 3 feet long and 3/4 inch wide - and threatened that if he ever made a statement to her that he had often done the she would strike him.
Stated that he went to stay with Complt because she had asked him to, that she was afraid to stay by herself with Deft - that Deft was most always deeply intoxicated more or less. That he was at the house the night the Deft was taken out, but did not know whom they were. That this whipping incident took place about four weeks before Complt left - Deft was very badly whipped. That all the threats the Complt made against the Deft, that he heard, were when Deft was abusing her, but he did not know anything about him threatening her to be whipped. Stated he is the son of a sister of Complt.
/s/ Edmund G Hall (Edmund Granville Hall)
DEPOSITION OF PLEASANT MALONE - Taken at same time and place.
Stated that he had heard Deft (Bishop) say that he had two children by Katy Crawley and that he intended to support them. He requested me to stay with him, which I refused to do on account of the disturbance - he told me to stay - that Aunt Kitty was going off Shortly and if she did not he intended to drive her off. I have heard him tell her that if she did not mind he would cowhide her and told a servant to get the Cowhide. That Deft had sent him for the horse Complt rode when she left and he brought him home from Mr Garnett' s where she was at the time. That he was at the house the night the Deft was taken out and whipped, that he saw one of the men, but did not know who he was.
And further this deponent saith not.
/s/ Pleasant J? Malone
DEPOSITION OF WILSON RYAN - Taken at same time and place.
Stated that he had heard Bishop state that he had two children by Katy Crawley & that he intended to support them - I disputed with him whether they was his children, he contended they was, and said he had a fair trial for them - that he had heard him call her his other wife repeatedly, and speak of being there divers times both day and night. That he had made their house his home for about 13 years. That all the time he had known her she was an industrious, frugal and managing woman (Mrs Bishop) and a dutiful and affectionate wife. That her character as far as he had been informed was a good one, and that he knew it was good, that he had ample opportunity to see and know if she had been having any illicit intercourse. That he was treated as a child by both of them and made their house his eating and sleeping place while there while attending to the business of the farm. He told me that she wanted him to drive her off, I don't think he told me that he would not live with her. That he had heard him (Bishop) make slanderous remarks about her, that he had never heard any one else make them about her.
Stated that he (Bishop) had paid sums of money for Doctors for her account, but not more than half of what they charged, for he frequently got out of it. That he had heard her ask for a Deed of Gift so that they could separate peacefully or a division of property. or live together in peace, that he had offered to give up to her the dwelling house & farm to support her, but would not stand up to it.
Deft (Bishop) told me that he received a negro man and woman shortly after they was married and at the sale of her father's estate Complts son became entitled to something like $1800. and Deft rec'd that which was willed by said son to Deft.
(note: GBW - The father of Catherine was Robert Stockton, Senr, who died in 1824. She had married 1st in 1807 to Benjamin Haden, they had a son Benjamin R Haden whose will was probated deceased in October term court 1829, therefore Benjanin R was possibly just 21 years of age - the boy did not will anything to Bishop or his wife, however. Catherine married Lowry Bishop 1810).
Upon being questioned exactly what Bishop had said regarding a division of the property, that he had said "he be Damn'd if he had not given her the last negroe flesh he ever could - that he had given her too much already but offered to give her the house and other property to support her, but later refused to comply, and it was after he had been whipped that he refused to comply. That he had not lived at their house for four or five years.
/s/ Wilson Ryan
DEPOSITION OF EDMUND DUFF - Taken at same time and place.
Stated he had heard Bishop threaten to whip Complt (Mrs Bishop) and had seen him shake a stake over her head, and threatened to send her to Hell if she did not leave his place, that he had told her to go to Hell if she could not find any other place. That she had cried and said she had no where to go, that was her home and told her to take her horse and gig and go to Hell if she had no other place to go.
Stated that he would come home frequently and commence abusing her by the time he would get into the room by calling her a damned Bitch a dammed Whore and a damned Liar, and that she would swear to a damned Lie. I have heard him to threaten to give her the Cowhide and order a negro woman to bring it to him to whip her with, the Negro went after the Cowhide but did not return, and I heard no more of it that night.
I have heard him say that he had two Children by Katy Crawley and that he had supported her for years ever since her son Sam was got, and that he got him the second time ever went to her - I have heard him repeatedly call her his second wife, that he had Supported her, and would support her if he did not raise a Grain of Corn or plant of Tobacco on the Plantation, and at the same time started as he said to go Katy Crawley's, Called up three negro men and ordered them to go over there and protect her - he also said that he had given her pork and money. And last summer when she moved away, said he had given her a Cart and Steers, Bacon, Flour, meal, a Bed and furniture and Twenty dollars in money.
Stated that he had been acquainted with Mrs Bishop for about 20 years and have lived about the house for about 10 years during that time and quit living there about 12 months ago. That her general Character was good as far as he knew. Stated that Bishop had a considerable amount of property and had heard him say about the time he left there he was worth from 13 or 16 thousand. That he knew since that time that Bishop had a tract of land sold at the court house door and two of the negroes by the Sheriff - he did not know the amount of his debts. Stated that she went well dressed and attended to the affairs of the house when she could,. that she was frequently sick.
In answer to a question as to whether Bishop had not come home and found him (Duff) and Complt (Mrs Bishop) locked up in a room together, answered - No Sir -but by request of Complts husband he had sat behind Complt and held her up while she sat up to rest or to take medication, soup or some other refreshment, which was in the presence of Bishop. In reply to the question if he had ever been in the bed or on it when the Deft (Bishop) was not in the room, replied that "I think I have when called upon by her or her Physician to set up with her the same as if her husband were present, and never was on the bed with her when she was well, to the best of my recollection. That he knew nothing of James Hall sleeping in the same room with Complt, when the Deft slept upstairs.
Stated upon questioning that he had frequently travelled with Complt when there was no other person present - that he was with her at the Springs in the upper part of the County one spring & slept in the same Cabin with her when Deft was absent, and went at his request.
Question: Was there any person living at the springs or near them?
Answer : No person lived there - there were several Cabbins around or near the spring & frequently occupied by visitors, the Deft carried the Complt to the springs and rode home the Gig horse & insisted that I should go, I objected to going then & before they went up he said I must go & carry the horse, for his wife would want to ride in the Gig & I went & staid until Deft came which was about two weeks.
Question: Did not you & Complt frequently while you were at the springs not ride into the woods & remain there for a considerable amount of time.
Answer: No Sir, we have rode from there to her brothers two or three times & to Mr Herons, her brother-in-law.
Question: Was it not reported in the neighborhood a few years ago that you & Conplt had had ilicit intercourse while you were at the springs together?
Answer: Not that I ever heard of.
Stated that Pleasant J Malone and Bishop Hall were present when he was at the time he heard Bishop threaten her, & sometimes no person present except negroes, and perhaps Mrs Mayfield was present when Deft shook a stick over her head, and perhaps the children which they claimed of James Hall. That Bishop had not ordered him to leave -that he himself, Duff, hired himself to N Dodd to keep store, Deft heard of that and said that he would board me if I would remain there for nothing & insisted upon my not leaving them, that he was now unfriendly towards the Deft, but was not until he left there. Also stated upon questioning that the times he held up Complt in the bed to take medication or nourishment, that it was because Deft had been called upon to assist her and was so drunk he could not - that the time they were at the springs and slept together in the Cabbin, there also were children and grown persons present.
Stated that he had heard Bishop tell his wife that he had two children by Caty Crawley, that he loved her (Katy) and would not. forsake her to save Complt's (Mrs Bishop) life. That when he traveled with Complt it was at the request of the Deft, while he, the Deft, laid about and rested. That for 18 months or 2 years before he left there, the Deft seldom came into the house without using insulting language to the Complt, and sometimes she would just sit there and cry, and other times it would end up in a quarrel - that he had heard Bishop say that he would ruin her (Mrs Bishop), that he had the property and money to do it with, and if he could not do it by fair means he would do it by foul, and that he would put her in the penitentary before he was done with her, where she ought to be, this statement was made to him while they were riding in a boat on the creek - the boat he had bought of Bishop - this was the latter part of March 1836.
/s/ Edmund Duff
DOCKET BOOK FOR CIRCUIT COURT CASES
March Term - 2nd day - 1838
Catherine Bishop, Complt - VS Lowry Bishop, Deft, In Chancery
This suit is abated by the death of the Deft (Lowry Bishop)
In a suit filed 15 Sept 1838, by Catherine Bishop VS Thomas C Bishop &C, Case No 937 - it is stated that Lowry Bishop and Thomas C Bishop as his agent had a large business which Thomas attended after Lowry became unable to attend to it himself. She is charging Thomas with collecting large sums of money, selling property etc, which he did not account for. The partnership business was distilling whiskey, brandy, etc, farming and selling livestock. Court found for Catherine, and ordered Thomas to pay plus court costs, etc.
Also case No ? March Term 1839 Catherine VS Jesse Sanders, court found in her favor, ordering him to pay plus court costs with interest.
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