{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"20885134","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/20885134","state":"Louisiana","county":"Pointe Coupee","location_type":"Parish","file_day":3,"file_month":9,"file_year":1851,"filing_court":"District","end_day":23,"end_month":3,"end_year":1852,"ending_court":"District","result":"dismissed","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":1,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"Pointe Coupee Parish Courthouse, New Roads, Louisiana","abstract":"Aimée Porche [Tounoir], a free woman of color, presents to the court that, earlier in the year, a slave named Madison, belonging to Ebenezer Cooley, stabbed her slave named Hypolite, who at the time was hired out to one Henry Demouy for $11 per month.  Aimée Porche claims that, as a result of the stabbing, she has incurred various expenses: $22 of lost hires while Hypolite was unable to work, $109 for medical care, and $12.88 for \"leeches, quinine, and other drugs.\" She further represents that \"Hypolite is a young creole negro, of excellent character, and was of great strength & worth; but is now in consequence of said wound diminished in value to the amount of Three hundred dollars, at least.\"  The slave Madison, on the other hand, \"is a negro of a violent & dangerous disposition,\"  who has since been tried and sentenced to one year of hard labor in the state penitentiary.  Porche seeks compensation from Ebenezer Cooley in the amount of $443.88 plus interest \"for judicial demand\" [Original partially in French].","subjects":[{"subject":"Enslaver (FPOC)"},{"subject":"FPOC sues white"},{"subject":"Jails\/Workhouses"},{"subject":"Trials (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Hiring value (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Assault"},{"subject":"Medical treatment"}]}]}