John Bradley seeks compensation for his twenty-one-year-old "prime field hand" named Moses, who "whilst at work on the public road in Clermont County Sumter District was killed by the top of a tree which was felled upon him by some other negroes working near him." Bradley contends that Moses "came to his death, not by the act of God, but by the carelessness of the negroes, who felled the tree upon him." Citing that "the said negro man was worth five hundred dollars," Bradley prays said sum "may be paid him by the state with interest."
Result: Referred to claims committee.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
