{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20681902","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20681902","state":"Georgia","county":"Scriven","location_type":"County","file_day":9,"file_month":8,"file_year":1819,"filing_court":"Superior","end_day":27,"end_month":4,"end_year":1827,"ending_court":"Superior","result":"dismissed","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Screven County Courthouse, Sylvania, Georgia","abstract":"William Gibbons sues Thomas Roberts for $2,000.  He alleges that Roberts came onto his property with force and arms, \"and did then and there by himself, and his servants, with axes, cut down & destroy the timber trees of your petitioner\" and afterwards \"converted the trees to his own use.\"  Gibbons asks that Roberts be cited to appear and answer the suit in an action of trespass.","subjects":[{"subject":"Crops (timber)"},{"subject":"Assault"}]}]}