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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Balfour v. Chinn 7 Mart. (n.s.) 358 1829 0 Property, petitory action, seizure, sales, delivery Louisiana
Heirs of Cole v. Cole's Executors 7 Mart. (n.s.) 414 1829 0 Forced heirs, successions, promissory notes, evidence, capacity, wills, donations, emancipation Louisiana
Adams v. Lewis 7 Mart. (n.s.) 400 1829 0 Recission, contracts, sales, property, sequestration, venue, reconventional demand Louisiana
Morgan's Syndics v. Fiveash 7 Mart. (n.s.) 410 1829 0 Torts, damages, negligence, liability Louisiana
Saul v. His Creditors 7 Mart. (n.s.) 425 1829 0 Sales, syndics, successions, property, privileges, mortgages Louisiana
Gosselin v. Gosselin 7 Mart. (n.s.) 469 1829 0 Successions, property, partition Louisiana
Gayoso v. Wikoff 7 Mart. (n.s.) 486 1829 0 Fraud, petitory action, damages, sequestration, reconventional demand, property, possessory action Louisiana
Xenes v. Taquino 7 Mart. (n.s.) 678 1829 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, fraud Louisiana
Dreux v. His Creditors 7 Mart. (n.s.) 635 1829 0 Successions, syndic, debts, privileges, property, mortgages Louisiana
United States v. Gray 3 D.C. 681 1829 0 Witness Competecnce / testimony United States
Pipsico v. Bontz 3 D.C. 425 1829 0 Evidence United States
Wigle v. Kirby's Executor 3 D.C. 597 1829 0 Wills/ Freedom suit/ manumission United States
Echols v. Derrick 2 Stew. 144 1829 0 Trover Alabama
Borroughs v. Broxon 3 Del. Cas. 217 1829 0 Transferance of enslaved individuals to the proper descendant Delaware
Butler v. Duvall 3 D.C. 611 1829 0 Freedom Petition United States
Maria v. White 3 D.C. 663 1829 0 Freedom Suit/ Petition (by reason of importation) United States
Floyd v. Barker 1 Paige Ch. 481 1829 0 Will & Trust Chancery Court of New York
Martin v. White 1 Stew. 473 1828 0 Covenant Alabama
Jacob v. Jacob 2 Rawle 204 1828 0 Defective slave claim SC of PA.
Bennett v. Black 1 Stew. 494 1828 0 Malicious Prosecution for Robbery of an Enslaved Person Alabama