Petition #11384102

Abstract

Elizabeth Butler seeks compensation for the injuries incurred by her slave, Sam, who broke his leg in 1840 while performing public road work. Butler recounts that she obeyed an order to provide "hands" to "do road work on a public road on which she resides" and that the said Sam fell while trying to cut some of the branches "which overhung the road and obstructed the passage thereof." Butler attests that "her negro is now a cripple and must always remain so" and that his value is "greatly reduced," while she has "incurred very considerable expense in the way of the Doctor's bill." Arguing that said injury occurred "in the discharge of a public duty," she "cannot for a moment doubt of her right to make her claim for compensation to your Honorable bodies, nor for a moment suppose that your justice will withhold it from her."

Result: Referred to claims committee; rejected.

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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina

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