{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20282401","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20282401","state":"Arkansas","county":"Clark","location_type":"County","file_day":4,"file_month":3,"file_year":1824,"filing_court":"Circuit","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"Clark County Historical Association Archives, Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas","abstract":"Sarah Haney writes that before her husband's death, one William McDonald induced him to purchase a piece of land, using a slave \"boy,\" Abram, as down payment. The price for the land was set at eleven hundred dollars; McDonald valued Abram at six hundred dollars. Sarah Haney maintains that her husband \"in his lifetime had been for a long time sick & debilitated so much so that his sickness had almost entirely destroyed his bodily & mental powers\" and therefore was \"utterly incapable & unfit to transact even common business.\"  She asks the court to declare the sale null and void and order McDonald to return Abram.","subjects":[{"subject":"Diseases (mental)"},{"subject":"Diseases (physical)"},{"subject":"Title dispute (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Assessed Value (enslaved)"}]}]}