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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Barrow v. McDonald 12 La. Ann. 110 1857 0 murder of an enslaved person, accounts, property, liquidation Louisiana
Barbin v. Gaspard 15 La. Ann. 539 1860 0 Property, Sale of Slave, Parol Evidence Louisiana
Farwell v. Harris 12 La. Ann. 50 1857 0 Theft of enslaved person, dispute over ownership of enslaved person Louisiana
Linton v. Wikoff 12 La. Ann. 880 1857 0 Testaments, manumission, res judicata Louisiana
State v. LeBlond 12 La. Ann. 363 1857 0 Criminal law, selling alcohol to an enslaved person Louisiana
Anderson v. Stille 12 La. Ann. 669 1856 0 Sequestration, partition, property Louisiana
Edwards v. Glasson 12 La. Ann. 586 1857 0 Promissory notes, redhibition, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Holland v. Miller 12 La. Ann. 624 1857 0 Consideration, judgment made on insane person, recovery for enslaved persons, contracts, fraud Louisiana
Tom v. Ernest 15 La. Ann. 44 1860 0 Property, Successions, Louisiana
Pepper v. Dunlap 19 La. 491 1841 0 Seizure, sales, privileges, mortgages, property, contracts Louisiana
Trudeau v. Smith's Syndics 12 Mart. (o.s.) 543 1823 0 Sales, property, mortgages, debts, privileges, syndics, delivery Louisiana
Whann v. Hufty 12 La. Ann. 280 1857 0 Property, seizure, attachments Louisiana
Suthon v. Castille 12 La. Ann. 889 1857 0 Sales, marital property, intestacy, debts Louisiana
Scott, Carhart & Co. v. Jackson 12 La. Ann. 640 1857 0 Hypothecary action, property, mortgages Louisiana
Robin v. Castille 7 La. 292 1834 0 Successions, property, mortgages, community property, debts, renunciation Louisiana
Guay v. Andrews 8 La. Ann. 141 1853 0 Judicial seizure, property, suretyships Louisiana
Taylor, Hadden & Co. v. Pearce 15 La. Ann. 564 1860 0 Hypothecary Action, Mortgage, Property, Louisiana
Megget v. Lynch 8 La. Ann. 6 1853 0 Fieri facias, debtor's judgment, mortgages, promissory notes, suretyship Louisiana
Sharp v. Davis 8 La. Ann. 92 1853 0 Promissory notes, sales, employment Louisiana
Ranlett v. Constance 15 La. Ann. 423 1860 0 Remedies, fraud, property, consideration, Secured transactions, debt, Louisiana