{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20783822","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20783822","state":"Kentucky","county":"Barren","location_type":"County","file_day":24,"file_month":9,"file_year":1838,"filing_court":"Circuit","end_day":24,"end_month":9,"end_year":1838,"ending_court":"Circuit","result":"granted","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":6,"repository":"Kentucky Division of Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky","abstract":"Horatio Short purchased a slave named Nancy for $710 from John G. Thomas.  He claims that Thomas \"represented Said negroe girl to be Sound & healthy and of good mind all of which reprisentations he new to be untrue and was made ... for the purpose of cheating & defrauding your orator.\"  Short says that Nancy is \"unsound\" and \"almost an idiot,\" so she is worth $400 less than he paid.  Thomas won judgment on the note Short executed for the slave, and Short asks that Thomas be restrained from collecting on $400 of the judgment plus that he be rewarded the costs of this suit.","subjects":[{"subject":"Diseases (mental)"},{"subject":"Warranty (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Purchase\/Sale prices (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Insolvency"}]}]}