{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20184514","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20184514","state":"Alabama","county":"Montgomery","location_type":"County","file_day":14,"file_month":3,"file_year":1845,"filing_court":"Chancery","enslaved_count":19,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":22,"repository":"Montgomery County Courthouse, Montgomery, Alabama","abstract":"Prior to their marriage in 1839, Elizabeth Huggins and Gaius Brach signed a prenuptial agreement securing Elizabeth's nineteen slaves in trust for her \"sole & separate use & benefit.\"  Elizabeth states that both before and after the marriage, Gaius hired out the slaves and collected the wages without making a separate account to her.  Now, following his death, his executor William S. Humphrey also refuses to present a separate account.  Elizabeth sues the executor to force him to turn over the profits from the hiring of her trust slaves.","subjects":[{"subject":"Prenuptial agreement"},{"subject":"Property owners (women)"}]}]}