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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Jacob v. Davis 4 La. Ann. 39 1849 0 Sales, recission, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, parol evidence, contracts Louisiana
Hall v. Woods 4 La. Ann. 85 1849 0 Property, sales, successions, promissory notes, tutorship, fraud Louisiana
State v. Banton 4 La. Ann. 31 1849 0 Runaway enslaved person, property, criminal law, statutory interpretation, indictment Louisiana
Amonett v. Fisk 4 La. Ann. 342 1849 0 Interrogatories, property, evidence, successions, bill of lading, delivery Louisiana
Landry v. Peterson 4 La. Ann. 96 1849 0 Sales, redhibition Louisiana
Salaun v. Relf 4 La. Ann. 575 1849 0 Judicial seizure, mortgages, privileges, subrogation, obligations Louisiana
Succession of Foster 4 La. Ann. 479 1849 0 Successions, mortgages, privileges, Louisiana
Succession of Bringier 4 La. Ann. 389 1849 0 Successions, marital property, usufruct, mortgages, privileges, sales Louisiana
Stille v. Beauchamp 13 La. Ann. 604 1858 0 Suretyship, bonds Louisiana
McClure v. King 13 La. Ann. 141 1858 0 Contracts, damages Louisiana
State v. O'Conner 13 La. Ann. 486 1858 0 Criminal law, selling liquor to an enslaved person Louisiana
John R. Marshall & Co. v. Simpson 13 La. Ann. 437 1858 0 Judgment, securities Louisiana
Clague v. City of New Orleans 13 La. Ann. 275 1858 0 Runaway enslaved person bailment Louisiana
Woods v. Woods 13 La. Ann. 189 1858 0 Heirs, nullity of sale Louisiana
Laycock v. Bird 13 La. Ann. 173 1858 0 Sales, donations in disguise, statutory interpretation Louisiana
State v. Henderson 13 La. Ann. 489 1858 0 Capital punishment, stabbing by enslaved person Louisiana
Owen v. Brown 13 La. Ann. 201 1858 0 Interrogatories, recovery for loss of enslaved person, torts Louisiana
Ford v. Simmons 13 La. Ann. 397 1858 0 Recovery of damages for murdered enslaved person Louisiana
Boone v. Pelichet 13 La. Ann. 203 1858 0 Property, loans, mortgages, Louisiana
Flemming v. Richardson 13 La. Ann. 414 1858 0 Redhibition Louisiana