{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20782813","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20782813","state":"Kentucky","county":"Christian","location_type":"County","file_day":25,"file_month":8,"file_year":1828,"filing_court":"Circuit","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky","abstract":"In the February 1828 term, the court found Noah Brunk to be a lunatic.  The complainants, Jesse Payne and Gurdon Saltonstall, were appointed to oversee Brunk and take charge of his estate, which included slaves.  They claim that Robert Higgins, a tavern keeper and neighbor of Brunk's, took advantage of Brunk and won a judgment against him in February, the same month in which he was declared insane.  To satisfy the judgment, Sheriff John Morris seized a two-year-old slave from Brunk's estate.  The complainants ask the court to restrain Higgins from selling the infant and to direct him to return the child; if he does not, they ask that the sheriff retrieve and return the child.","subjects":[{"subject":"Diseases (mental)"},{"subject":"Drunkenness"}]}]}