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Case Name Citation ▲ Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Hart v. New Orleans & Carrollton Rail Road 1 Rob. 178 1841 1 Louisiana
Baird v. Livingston 1 Rob. 182 1841 0 Debts, sales, mortgages, prescription, contracts Louisiana
Dussin v. Charles 1 Rob. 195 1841 0 Promissory notes, agency, sales, freedom suit Louisiana
Hereford v. Chase 1 Rob. 212 1841 0 Promissory notes, suretyship, privileges, subrogation Louisiana
Slocomb v. Watkins 1 Rob. 214 1841 0 Promissory notes, obligations, seizure, sales, privileges Louisiana
Martin v. Drake 1 Rob. 218 1842 0 Promissory notes, redhibition, sales, community property, suretyship Louisiana
Florance v. Orleans Navigation Co. 1 Rob. 224 1842 1 Louisiana
Gallier v. Walsh 1 Rob. 226 1842 0 Partnership, liquidation, property, contracts Louisiana
Bronaugh v. Neal 1 Rob. 23 1841 0 Suretyship, reconventional demand, promissory notes, contracts, delivery Louisiana
Klady v. McGuire 1 Rob. 25 1841 0 Jurisdiction, sales, criminal law Louisiana
Dorsey v. Phelan 1 Rob. 28 1841 0 Community property, property, seizure, sales, damages Louisiana
Knight v. Murchison 1 Rob. 31 1841 0 Intervernor, property, community property, conflict of laws, simulation, sales Louisiana
de Lalande v. Bormeau 1 Rob. 315 1842 0 Wills, property, emancipation, sales, contracts, recission, capacity Louisiana
Jewell v. Jewell 1 Rob. 316 1842 1 Louisiana
Maria v. Edwards 1 Rob. 359 1842 0 Freedom suit, wills, emancipation, witness testimony Louisiana
Porche v. L'Admirault 1 Rob. 365 1842 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, intervenor Louisiana
Terrell v. Cutrer 1 Rob. 367 1842 0 Property, community property, syndic, successions, agency Louisiana
Kemp v. Womack 1 Rob. 369 1842 0 Successions, prescription, adverse possession Louisiana
Thibodeaux v. Thomasson 1 Rob. 376 1842 0 Property, simulation, seizure, sales, contracts Louisiana
Hart v. Foley 1 Rob. 378 1842 0 Community property, promissory notes, property, obligations, privileges, fieri facias, sales, successions, mortgages, prescription, partition Louisiana