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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Beard v. Poydras 4 Mart. (o.s.) 348 1816 0 Property, wills, capacity, witness testimony, emancipation, parol evidence, intestacy, sales Louisiana
Cassou v. Blanque 3 Mart. (o.s.) 390 1814 0 Community property, sales, property, lien, seizure, restitution, mortgages Louisiana
Dean ex rel. Vineyard v. Smith 12 Mart. (o.s.) 316 1822 0 Promissory notes, property, abatement, redhibition Louisiana
Fleming v. Lockart 10 Mart. (o.s.) 398 1821 0 Damages, sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, recission, indeminification Louisiana
Skillman v. Lacey 12 Mart. (o.s.) 404 1822 0 Seizure, sales, privileges, mortgages, community property, successions, debts, property, parol evidence, subrogation, prescription, contracts Louisiana
Labranche v. Watkins 4 Mart. (o.s.) 391 1816 0 Runaway enslaved person, sales, petitory action, evidence, prescription, fraud Louisiana
Wyche v. Wyche 10 Mart. (o.s.) 408 1821 0 Community property, property, sales, successions, damages Louisiana
Le Blanc v. Sanglair 12 Mart. (o.s.) 402 1822 0 Promissory notes, consideration, sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, debts, interrogatories Louisiana
Lafariere v. Sanglair 12 Mart. (o.s.) 399 1822 0 Sales, recission, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, promissory notes, parol evidence Louisiana
Boulden v. Hughes 8 Mart. (n.s.) 285 1829 0 Privileges, property, successions, sales, debts Louisiana
Brown v. Compton 10 Mart. (o.s.) 425 1821 0 Fraud, runaway enslaved person, manumission, sales, emancipation, evidence Louisiana
Nuttall v. Kirkland 8 Mart. (n.s.) 292 1829 0 Successions, administrato, property Louisiana
Dussuau's Syndics v. Bredeaux 4 Mart. (o.s.) 450 1816 0 Syndic, successions, property, privileges, sales, evidence, disavowal Louisiana
Calvit v. Haynes 8 Mart. (o.s.) 712 1820 0 Promissory notes, suretyship, sales Louisiana
Casson v. Cureton 12 Mart. (o.s.) 435 1822 0 Property, bailments, seizure, sales,, fieri facias, contracts, debts, obligations Louisiana
White v. Holsten 4 Mart. (o.s.) 471 1816 0 Property, successions, forced heirs, legitimacy, wills, parol evidence, conflict of laws, community property Louisiana
White v. Cumming 5 Mart. (n.s.) 199 1826 0 Sales, redhibition, recission, promissory notes, damages Louisiana
State v. Pitot 12 Mart. (o.s.) 485 1822 0 Successions, wills, property, privileges, mandamus, absent heirs, evidence, error Louisiana
Morrison v. Trudeau 1 Mart. (n.s.) 384 1823 0 Successions, privileges, mortgages, sales, debts, seizure, property Louisiana
Stafford v. Stafford 1 Mart. (n.s.) 648 1823 0 Promissory notes, witness testimony, evidence Louisiana