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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Lynch v. Kitchen 2 La. Ann. 843 1847 0 Warranty, mortgages, property, sales, seizure, subrogation, res judicata, damages, eviction Louisiana
Heres v. Powell 6 La. Ann. 586 1851 0 Sales, taxes Louisiana
State v. Jonas 6 La. Ann. 695 1851 0 Criminal law, capital punishment, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Nichols v. Botts 6 La. Ann. 437 1851 0 Judicial seizure, property, privileges, sales Louisiana
Wallis v. Thomas 6 La. Ann. 76 1851 0 Sales, judicial seizure Louisiana
State v. Read 6 La. Ann. 227 1851 0 Criminal law Louisiana
Perry v. Holloway 6 La. Ann. 265 1851 0 Property, sales, partnerships Louisiana
Cooney's Heirs v. Clark 7 La. 156 1834 0 Successions, partition, petitory action, sales, warranty, damages, seizure, mortgages, debts, property Louisiana
Phillips v. Flint 3 La. 146 1831 0 Successions, property, mortgages, debts, privileges, res judicata, petitory action, partition, seizure Louisiana
Withers's Heirs v. His Executors 3 La. 363 1832 0 Promissory notes, successions, emancipation, property, suretyship, capacity Louisiana
M'Combs v. Dunbar 3 La. 517 1832 0 Successions, property, wills, community property, sales, obligations, damages, privileges, contracts Louisiana
Roquet v. Richardson 3 La. 452 1832 0 Runaway enslaved person, property, damages, compensation, criminal law Louisiana
Daquin v. Coiron 3 La. 387 1832 0 Property, seizure, eviction, sales, recission, delivery, partition, contracts, damages Louisiana
Durnford v. Clark's Estate 3 La. 199 1831 0 Hypothecary action, property, mortgages, sales, privileges, prescription, debts Louisiana
Bronaugh v. Bowles 3 La. 120 1831 0 Agencys, successions, property, sales, damages, partition, community property, debts Louisiana
M'Donough v. Zacharie 3 La. 313 1832 0 Sales, property, contracts, mortgages, successions, seizure, hypothecary action, debts Louisiana
Prejean's Heirs v. Le Blanc 3 La. 19 1831 0 Successions, property, reversion Louisiana
Cowand v. Reynolds 3 La. 378 1832 0 Sales, damages, eviction, runaway enslaved person, redhibition, conflict of laws, suretyship, fraud, contracts, manumission Louisiana
Newson v. Adams 3 La. 231 1832 0 Community property, damages, successions, conflict of laws, contracts Louisiana
Burney's Heirs v. Lamothe 3 La. 195 1831 0 Sales, adverse possession, prescription, petitory action, community property, successions, debts, conflict of laws, property, damages Louisiana