{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20685016","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20685016","state":"Georgia","county":"Greene","location_type":"County","file_day":9,"file_month":3,"file_year":1850,"filing_court":"Superior","end_day":13,"end_month":9,"end_year":1852,"ending_court":"Superior","result":"partially granted","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"Greene County Courthouse, Greensboro, Georgia","abstract":"In 1837, John Pertut, now deceased, invested $4,500 in a slave trading venture with Amaziah Cobb.  Cobb invested $2,000 in the business and served as the partnership's speculator.  It was agreed that Cobb would pay one-half of the net profits from the sales as well as repay his $4,500 investment.  In 1845, Pertut expressed his desire to terminate the operation and asked for the $4,500 and his share of the profits.  Now he has died and William Pertut, administrator of his estate, complains that Cobb still refuses to settle the account.  Pertut seeks $12,000 in damages.","subjects":[{"subject":"Slave trade (domestic)"}]}]}