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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Pepper v. Dunlap 9 La. Ann. 137 1854 0 Sales, judicial seizure, property, prescription, eviction Louisiana
Bird v. Vail 9 La. Ann. 176 1854 0 Emancipation, successions, wills Louisiana
Gilmore v. Gilmore 9 La. Ann. 197 1854 0 Successions, property, sales, partition Louisiana
Dufief v. Boykin 9 La. Ann. 295 1854 0 Sales, property, judicial seizure, mortgages, possessory rights, eviction Louisiana
Lusk v. Swon 9 La. Ann. 367 1854 0 Runaway enslaved person, contracts, emancipation, sales Louisiana
Stewart v. City of New Orleans 9 La. Ann. 461 1854 0 Police brutality, property, murder of enslaved person, municipal liability Louisiana
De Young v. De Young 9 La. Ann. 545 1854 0 Marital property, debts, promissory notes, fraud Louisiana
Hall v. Hall 11 Tex. 526 1854 0 Mortgage dispute Texas
Thompson v. Thompson 12 Tex. 327 1854 0 Action to recover slaves Texas
Weight v. Henderson 12 Tex. 43 1854 0 Trial for the right of property Texas
Woodland v. Wallis 6 Md. 151 1854 0 Maryland
Worthington v. Bullitt 6 Md. 172 1854 0 Maryland
Mitchell v. Mitchell's Lessee 6 Md. 224 1854 0 Maryland
Hamilton v. Gwynn 24 Ala. 515 1854 0 Will & trust Alabama
Burch v. Stovall 27 Miss. 725 1854 0 Validity of will Mississippi
Nash v. Smallwood 6 Md. 394 1854 0 Maryland
Rawlings v. Adams 7 Md. 26 1854 0 Maryland
Daniels v. Henderson 5 Fla. 452 1854 0 Remdedy Rights Against a Mortgagor Supreme Court of FL
Mounce v. Byars 16 Ga. 469 1854 0 Conveyance of slave Supreme Court of Georgia
Whitaker v. Strong 16 Ga. 81 1854 0 Claim and levy Supreme Court of Georgia