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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Wall v. Hampton 2 Mart. (n.s.) 361 1824 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, fraud, sales, successions Louisiana
Baker v. Voorhies 6 Mart. (n.s.) 312 1827 0 Sales, successions, injunction Louisiana
Balfour v. Chinn 7 Mart. (n.s.) 358 1829 0 Property, petitory action, seizure, sales, delivery Louisiana
Vavasseur v. Bayon 11 Mart. (o.s.) 639 1822 0 Fraud, sales, property, recission, redhibition Louisiana
Gardere v. Foucher 4 Mart. (n.s.) 352 1826 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, property, sales Louisiana
Brown v. Fort 1 Mart. (o.s.) 34 1809 0 Promissory notes. libel, sales, consideration, evidence Louisiana
Adams v. Lewis 7 Mart. (n.s.) 400 1829 0 Recission, contracts, sales, property, sequestration, venue, reconventional demand Louisiana
Debora v. Coffin 1 Mart. (o.s.) 40 1809 0 Seizure, mortgages, property, contracts, conflict of laws, privileges, debts Louisiana
Sterling v. Fusilier 7 Mart. (o.s.) 442 1820 0 Warranty, sales, eviction, suretyship, damages, contracts, property Louisiana
Morgan's Syndics v. Fiveash 7 Mart. (n.s.) 410 1829 0 Torts, damages, negligence, liability Louisiana
Castellano v. Peillon 2 Mart. (n.s.) 466 1824 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, runaway enslaved person, warranty Louisiana
Pierce v. Grays 5 Mart. (o.s.) 367 1818 0 Sales, property, donations inter vivos, revocation, parol evidence Louisiana
Clark's Heirs v. Barham's Heirs 4 Mart. (n.s.) 411 1826 0 Successions, wills, prescription, property 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
Ulzire v. Poeyfarre 2 Mart. (n.s.) 504 1824 0 Freedom suit Louisiana
Newcombe v. Skipwith 1 Mart. (o.s.) 151 1810 0 Property, debts, attachment, treaties, territorial boundaries Louisiana
Dormenon's Case 1 Mart. (o.s.) 129 1810 0 Mutiny, witness testimony, impeachment Louisiana
Viales v. Viales' Syndics 7 Mart. (o.s.) 634 1820 0 Restitution, dowry, marriage, property, donations, privileges, successions, debts Louisiana
Strawbridge v. Turner 8 La. 537 1835 0 Torts, runaway enslaved person, liability, damages Louisiana