<petition><petition_analysis_number>20186224</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20186224</petition_url><state>Alabama</state><county>Pike</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>1</file_day><file_month>1</file_month><file_year>1862</file_year><filing_court>Probate</filing_court><end_day>9</end_day><end_month>1</end_month><end_year>1862</end_year><ending_court>Probate</ending_court><result>granted</result><enslaved_count>0</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>Pike County Courthouse, Troy, Alabama</repository><abstract>James and Wade Thomas charge that their father James Thomas Sr. "is Totally unfit &amp; disqualified to manage &amp; 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."</abstract><subjects><subject>Diseases (mental)</subject></subjects></petition>