Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Childers v. Childers 21 Ga. 377 1857 0 Action of trover Supreme Court of Georgia
Vaughan v. Vaughan's Heirs 30 Ala. 329 1857 0 Dispute over Will Alabama
Fail v. McArthur 31 Ala. 26 1857 0 Conversion of Enslaved Persons Alabama
Roby v. Boswell 23 Ga. 51 1857 0 Equity Action Supreme Court of Georgia
Mitchell v. Tallapoosa County 30 Ala. 130 1857 0 Action to recover for medical services rendered to enslaved person Alabama
Traun v. Keiffer 31 Ala. 136 1857 0 Detinue Alabama
Dugan v. Hollins 11 Md. 41 1857 0 Maryland
Pritchard v. Wallace 36 Tenn. 405 1857 0 Tennessee
Bragg v. French 37 Tenn. 244 1857 0 Tennessee
Smith v. Executors of Smith 23 Ga. 21 1857 0 Equity Action Supreme Court of Georgia
Wallace v. Canaday 36 Tenn. 364 1857 0 Tennessee
Major v. State 36 Tenn. 597 1857 0 Tennessee
Gunter v. Leckey 30 Ala. 591 1857 0 Trover for Conversion of Enslaved Persons Alabama
Morris v. Stokes 21 Ga. 552 1857 0 Will and Trust Supreme Court of Georgia
Willis v. Willis 22 Ga. 290 1857 0 Trover Action Supreme Court of Georgia
Arendale v. Samuel D. Morgan & Co. 37 Tenn. 703 1857 0 Tennessee
May v. May 7 Fla. 207 1857 0 Dispute Over a Life Estate Supreme Court of FL
Jordan v. State 22 Ga. 545 1857 0 Indictment for murdering a slave Supreme Court of Georgia
Luna v. Edmiston 37 Tenn. 159 1857 0 Tennessee
Hemphill v. Hemphill 34 Miss. 68 1857 0 Fraudulent assignment of slaves as property Mississippi