{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20185622","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20185622","state":"Alabama","county":"Montgomery","location_type":"County","file_day":1,"file_month":11,"file_year":1856,"filing_court":"Probate","end_year":1856,"ending_court":"Probate","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama","abstract":"Francis M. Gilmer, the uncle of forty-two-year-old Montgomery resident Nicholas M. Gilmer, asks the court to declare his nephew insane.  Gilmer owns a 1,600-acre pine tree plantation on the Red River, Caddo Parish, Louisiana; he also owns twenty-one slaves (one of whom recently died).  According to his uncle, Gilmer is unbalanced and \"has become dangerous to the community.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Diseases (mental)"}]}]}