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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Lesseps v. Pontchartrain Railroad 17 La. 361 1841 0 Murder, damages, negligence, torts, contributory negligence Louisiana
Daquin v. Coiron 3 La. 387 1832 0 Property, seizure, eviction, sales, recission, delivery, partition, contracts, damages Louisiana
Canty v. Beal 17 La. 282 1841 0 Partnerships, privileges, damages, contracts Louisiana
Withers's Heirs v. His Executors 3 La. 363 1832 0 Promissory notes, successions, emancipation, property, suretyship, capacity Louisiana
Hynson v. Meuillon 2 La. Ann. 798 1847 0 Damages, property, seizure, criminal law, liability Louisiana
Flint v. Cuny 7 La. 379 1834 0 Syndic, sales, recission, property, successions, prescription Louisiana
Jacobs v. Tricou 17 La. 104 1841 0 Successions, property, community property, mortgages, privileges Louisiana
Roquet v. Richardson 3 La. 452 1832 0 Runaway enslaved person, property, damages, compensation, criminal law Louisiana
Hewet & Co. v. Wilson 7 La. 71 1834 0 Theft, liability, damages Louisiana
Stephenson's Administrator v. Addison 17 La. 454 1841 0 Sales, successions, suretyship, obligations, eviction, petitory action Louisiana
Lynch v. Kitchen 2 La. Ann. 843 1847 0 Warranty, mortgages, property, sales, seizure, subrogation, res judicata, damages, eviction Louisiana
Bourgeois v. Bourgeois 17 La. 494 1841 0 Fieri facias, seizure, sales, property, community property Louisiana
Dupuy v. Dashiell 15 La. 124 1840 0 Property, sales, seizure, privileges, mortgages, debts Louisiana
Bernard v. Pyburn 15 La. 126 1840 0 Murder, torts, damages, negligence Louisiana
Serapurn v. Bousquet 15 La. 509 1840 0 Sales, recission, redhibition, promissory notes, warranty Louisiana
Bronaugh v. Bowles 3 La. 120 1831 0 Agencys, successions, property, sales, damages, partition, community property, debts Louisiana
Skillman v. Purnell 3 La. 494 1832 0 Partnerships, sales, seizure, injunction, debts, fieri facias, property, privileges Louisiana
Hood v. M'Corkle 16 La. 240 1840 0 Murder, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Emmerling v. Beebe 15 La. 251 1840 0 Bailment, conversion, sales, damages Louisiana
Lesassier v. Lesassier 15 La. 55 1840 0 Successions, property, mortgages, privileges, seizure Louisiana