{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20681604","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20681604","state":"Georgia","county":"Pulaski","location_type":"County","file_day":3,"file_month":12,"file_year":1816,"filing_court":"Superior","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"Pulaski County Courthouse, Hawkinsville, Georgia","abstract":"William H. Gross alleges that Jacob Summerlin \"craftily and subtlely intending to defraud your petitioner pretended and asserted that two certain negroes (to wit) a fellow named Abraham and a woman named Nance belonged to him.\"  Summerlin sold them for $1,000 to Gross.  However, Gross learned that Abraham and Nance either \"were then & there free and not in lawful detention,\" or they were another man's property.  He sues for $1,000 in damages.","subjects":[{"subject":"Title dispute (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Warranty (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"}]}]}