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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Morgan v. Purnell 11 N.C. 95 1825 0 Action of detinue North Carolina
Rogers v. Wilson 1 Minor 407 1826 0 Assault and False Imprisonment Alabama
Bayon v. Towles 5 Mart. (n.s.) 1 1826 0 Promissory notes, sales, recission, runaway enslaved person, redhibition, warranty, mortgages Louisiana
Elliot v. Cox 5 Mart. (n.s.) 285 1826 0 Suretyships, injunction, subrogation, mortgages, privileges, recordation, sales, seizure, property, parol evidence Louisiana
Copelle v. Dalton 4 Mart. (n.s.) 123 1826 0 Successions, property, sales Louisiana
Stafford v. Stafford 5 Mart. (n.s.) 162 1826 0 Wages, sales Louisiana
Wright v. Harman 5 Mart. (n.s.) 235 1826 0 Criminal prosecution, sequestration, liability Louisiana
United States v. Williams 3 D.C. 65 1826 0 Aiding and Abedding escase of a female slave. United States
Boice v. Gibbons 8 N.J.L. 399 1826 Improper conveyance of slave New Jersey
Butler v. Godley 12 N.C. 94 1826 0 Trusts North Carolina
Wells v. Hunter 5 Mart. (n.s.) 119 1826 0 Injunction, property, sales, successions, res judicata, contracts Louisiana
Douglass v. Curtis 5 Mart. (n.s.) 112 1826 0 Successions, promissory notes, debts, privileges, property, mortgages, sales, discussion, seizure Louisiana
Cheshire v. Booe 16 N.C. 22 1826 0 Trusts North Carolina
Havard v. Stone 5 Mart. (n.s.) 126 1826 0 Debts, injunction, conflict of laws Louisiana
Williams v. Horton 4 Mart. (n.s.) 464 1826 0 Successions, property, sales, forced heirs, donations, fraud, contracts Louisiana
Moore v. Moore 11 N.C. 358 1826 0 Suit in equity North Carolina
Hoggatt's Admr. v. Hunt's Executors 1 Miss. 216 1826 0 Action to recover slaves Mississippi
Overton v. Archinard 5 Mart. (n.s.) 207 1826 0 Sales, property, delivery, successions, syndic, seizure, mortgages Louisiana
Le Breton v. Morgan 4 Mart. (n.s.) 138 1826 0 Injunction, seizure, sales, taxes Louisiana
Balfour v. Chew 4 Mart. (n.s.) 154 1826 0 Seizure, sales, injunction, property, promissory notes, mortgages Louisiana