James McCants represents that his thirty-year-old slave named March, "a valuable field hand," received "an injury on his back or loins of which he shortly afterwards died"; March had been employed with "a number of hands perhaps forty to raise the arches" of a bridge spanning Little River. The petitioner therefore "trusts that his case will be taken into consideration and such relief granted as the circumstances of the case will authorize." McCants claims that "he is in very indigent circumstances, and unable to bear the loss."
Result: Referred to claims committee; rejected.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
