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This document gives background to the court case of Carmichael vs. Harrison. After Mann Page died, his widow Mary W. Page married Burr Harrison. The Harrison's then assumed the possession of the slaves of the estate of Mann Page. James Carmichael and William Browne, partners in a medical practice, attended, prescribed, and administered medicines to those slaves and the children of Mann Page. After the partnership of Browne and Carmichael dissolved, Carmichael's practice included his son, Edward H. Carmichael. The bill asserts that Harrison cannot pay the medical debt unless he sells the slaves or hires them out for profit. [Courtesy of the Fredericksburg Circuit Court]
