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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Bank of Louisiana v. Briscoe 3 La. Ann. 157 1848 0 Seizure, sales, mortgages, bonds, property, contracts, promissory notes, obligations Louisiana
Petrie v. Wofford 3 La. Ann. 562 1848 0 Successions, community property, renunciation, partition, sales, contracts Louisiana
A. Bonnafe & Co. v. Lane 5 La. 225 1850 0 Mortgages, sales, property, recordation, privileges, conflict of laws, obligations Louisiana
Bonner v. Gill 5 La. 629 1850 0 Marital property, sales, conversion Louisiana
Fuselier v. Fuselier 5 La. 132 1850 0 Successions, sales, property, partition Louisiana
Peterson v. Burn 3 La. Ann. 655 1848 0 Sales, redhibition, recission, damages, quantis minoris Louisiana
Hoover v. Sellers 5 La. 180 1850 0 Forced heirs, successions, property, sales Louisiana
Johnson v. Municipality No. One 5 La. 100 1850 0 Negligence, municipality liability, runaway enslaved persons Louisiana
Arnandez v. Lawes 5 La. 127 1850 0 Murder, torts, damages Louisiana
Briscoe v. Tarkington 5 La. 692 1850 0 Emancipation, obligations, mortgages, property Louisiana
Roundtree v. Baker 52 Ill. 241 1869 0 Illinois
Broussard v. Dugas 5 La. 585 1850 0 Marital property, privileges, mortgages Louisiana
Bryan v. Dubois 5 La. 17 1850 0 Promissory notes, sales, redhibition, parol evidence Louisiana
McCleland v. Bideman 5 La. 563 1850 0 Successions, sales, marital property Louisiana
Yates v. Phipps 5 La. 124 1850 0 Judicial seizure, sales, mortgages, property Louisiana
Mary v. Brown 5 La. 269 1850 0 Freedom suit, conflict of laws Louisiana
Maxwell v. Mallard 5 La. 702 1850 0 Property, sales, simulation Louisiana
Dean v. Clarke 5 La. 105 1850 0 Sales, promisorry notes, redhibition, agency, reconvential demand Louisiana
Hardaway v. Semmes 24 Ga. 305 1858 0 Garnishment Georgia
Back v. Meeks 1 La. 309 1830 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, runaway enslaved person Louisiana