{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20485106","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20485106","state":"District of Columbia","county":"Washington","location_type":"County","file_day":19,"file_month":11,"file_year":1851,"filing_court":"Circuit","end_day":19,"end_month":11,"end_year":1855,"ending_court":"Circuit","result":"granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":2,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"National Archives, Washington, D. C.","abstract":"Petitioner Elizabeth Jennings shows the court that her sister, Mary [also called Polly] Jennings, a free person of color, has been committed as a \"Lunatic,\" and is dangerous to the public.  Elizabeth states that Mary has been committed frequently for the same reasons in the past.  The petitioner asks that a committee be appointed to investigate Mary Jennings's sanity, or lack thereof, and issue a writ of lunatico inquirendo.","subjects":[{"subject":"Canada, migration to"},{"subject":"Property owners (Black)"},{"subject":"Diseases (mental)"},{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"}]}]}