{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"21681803","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/21681803","state":"Virginia","county":"Winchester","location_type":"City","file_day":25,"file_month":9,"file_year":1818,"filing_court":"Superior","end_day":0,"end_month":1,"end_year":1820,"ending_court":"Superior","result":"partially granted; injunction dissolved; dismissed","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia","abstract":"John Hinkle states that \"sometime in the month of July 1817\" he \"contracted with one Van Swearingen ... for a negro man (then his property) for the sum of six hundred dollars.\"  Hinkle reveals that \"Swearingen refused to take less than 600$,\" and \"your orator observed that as he wanted a good fellow he supposed he must acquiese & accordingly the bargain was closed.\"  Based on the \"declarations & recommendations of said Swearingen,\" the petitioner admits that he \"did not for a moment suppose that [the slave] was not perfectly sound in all respects.\"  However, Hinkle contends that Swearingen \"committed a gross fraud on your orator.\"  He alleges that the slave Tom arrived at his house \"full of pain & disease,\" adding that \"sometime in the month of October last ... he was compelled to lay up in bed being unable to walk & so continued untill the 9th of February 1808 when he died.\"  Charging that his \"family was put to great inconvenience in nursing and attending upon the slave for several months & were obliged to lift him from place to place he being unable to walk,\" Hinkle prays that the judgment obtained by Swearingen for nonpayment \"be enjoined.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Death of enslaved (disease)"},{"subject":"Diseases (physical)"},{"subject":"Medical treatment"},{"subject":"Warranty (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"}]}]}