Lumpkin County gold mining court case documents, 1847

Summary

Creator:

Sims, Henry L.

Date:

1847

Extent:

1 folder(s)

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Lumpkin County gold mining court case documents, ms3458, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of two legal documents prepared and signed by Henry L. Sims, in Lumpkin Superior Court, 1847, involving a possible gold scam in Lumpkin County, Georgia. Johnson Ledbetter sued Martin Roberts, Jeptha Scott, and Jonas Bedford, charging them with a conspiracy to sell him land in Lumpkin County that included gold deposits when they knew there were none. The documents include Scott's answer, disavowing all knowledge to the specifics of Ledbetter's charges, and an interrogatory from Sims to a witness, asking for information concerning gold mining activity on the land, and with Ledbetter's counter-interrogatories appended.

Biographical / historical:

Henry L. Sims was an attorney in 1847.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Fraud -- Georgia.
Legal documents.
Gold mines and mining -- Georgia -- Lumpkin County.

Names:

Bedford, Jonas
Scott, Jeptha
Roberts, Martin
Ledbetter, Johnson
Sims, Henry L.

Preferred citation:

Lumpkin County gold mining court case documents, ms3458, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.