Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Pickens v. Oliver 29 Ala. 528 1857 0 Action by husband and wife to recover enslaved persons Alabama
Reinhart v. Miller 22 Ga. 402 1857 0 Action of trover Supreme Court of Georgia
Stewart's Adm'r v. Stewart's Heirs 31 Ala. 207 1857 0 Action against adminstrator of estate Alabama
Creditors of Spicer v. Spicer 21 Ga. 200 1857 0 Will and Testament Supreme Court of Georgia
Caldwell v. Sawyer 30 Ala. 283 1857 0 Subject Estate to Payment of Promissory Note Alabama
Pope v. Tucker 23 Ga. 484 1857 0 Action of trover Supreme Court of Georgia
Stone v. Dorsett 18 Tex. 700 1857 0 Will & trust Texas
Shirkey v. Hunt 18 Tex. 883 1857 0 Note of sale dispute Texas
James v. Carper 36 Tenn. 397 1857 0 Tennessee
Lallerstedt v. Jennings 23 Ga. 571 1857 0 Will and Trust Supreme Court of Georgia
Mills v. Glover 22 Ga. 319 1857 0 Possessory warrant Supreme Court of Georgia
Fail v. McArthur 31 Ala. 26 1857 0 Conversion of Enslaved Persons Alabama
Allen v. Prater 30 Ala. 458 1857 0 Title dispute Alabama
Burnley v. Rice 18 Tex. 481 1857 0 Partner dispute Texas
Shelby v. Burtis 18 Tex. 644 1857 0 Deed of trust/mortgage dispute Texas
Brooks v. State 30 Ala. 513 1857 0 Illegal Trade of Enslaved Persons Alabama
Agee v. Williams 30 Ala. 636 1857 0 Detinue for a enslaved person Alabama
Lea v. Brown 56 N.C. 141 1857 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
Wolf v. Wolf 12 La. Ann. 529 1857 0 Sales, properties, mortgages, privileges, community property, promissory notes, simulation, contracts, seizure Louisiana
Phipps v. Berger 12 La. Ann. 111 1857 0 Promissory notes, redhibition, recission of sale of enslaved person Louisiana