{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20184506","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20184506","state":"Alabama","county":"Chambers","location_type":"County","file_day":3,"file_month":3,"file_year":1845,"filing_court":"Chancery","end_month":5,"end_year":1845,"ending_court":"Chancery","result":"dismissed","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":3,"repository":"Chambers County Courthouse, Lafayette, Alabama","abstract":"In 1842, a branch of the Bank of Alabama secured a judgment of $553 against John A. Wicker, who had signed a promissory note with James Brooks and William W. Carlisle as security.  To pay the judgment, Wicker borrowed $195 from Brooks, in the process mortgaging \"a Certain Negro boy a Slave by the Name of Bob about twenty one years old.\"  It was well understood between them, Wicker writes, that the conveyance, although on its face a bill of sale, was intended \"merely as a mortgage.\"  When Wicker paid the debt, however, Brooks refused to return the slave.  Wicker seeks \"adequate relief.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Mortgage value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Assessed Value (enslaved)"}]}]}