{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20186224","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20186224","state":"Alabama","county":"Pike","location_type":"County","file_day":1,"file_month":1,"file_year":1862,"filing_court":"Probate","end_day":9,"end_month":1,"end_year":1862,"ending_court":"Probate","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Pike County Courthouse, Troy, Alabama","abstract":"James and Wade Thomas charge that their father James Thomas Sr. \"is Totally unfit & disqualified to manage & control his affairs.\"  He owns lands, mules, cattle, hogs, and slaves worth an estimated fifty thousand dollars, but the estate is \"wasting, liable to waste, and will be to a considerable extent squandered unless he shall be prevented in some way from its further control.\"  They seek \"a writ of Lunacy under the Law.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Diseases (mental)"}]}]}