<petition><petition_analysis_number>20681604</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/20681604</petition_url><state>Georgia</state><county>Pulaski</county><location_type>County</location_type><file_day>3</file_day><file_month>12</file_month><file_year>1816</file_year><filing_court>Superior</filing_court><enslaved_count>2</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>4</total_people_count><repository>Pulaski County Courthouse, Hawkinsville, Georgia</repository><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 &amp; there free and not in lawful detention," or they were another man's property.  He sues for $1,000 in damages.</abstract><subjects><subject>Title dispute (enslaved)</subject><subject>Warranty (enslaved)</subject><subject>Purchase/Sale prices (enslaved)</subject></subjects></petition>