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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Robards v. Wortham 17 N.C. 173 1831 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
Dewoody v. Hubbard 1 Stew. & P. 9 1831 0 Property dispute Alabama
Beale's Heirs v. De Gruy 2 La. 468 1831 0 Sales, mortgages, promissory notes, redhibition, recission, damages, successions, contracts Louisiana
Muggah v. Greig 2 La. 593 1831 0 Sales, petitory action, agency, mandates, delivery, parol evidence, property, successions, contracts Louisiana
Bethea v. Taylor 3 Stew. 482 1831 0 Trespass Alabama
Joseph v. Moreno 2 La. 460 1831 0 Contracts, specific performance, petitory action, community property, sales Louisiana
Watts v. Garrett 3 G. & J. 355 1831 0 Maryland
Labbe's Heirs v. Abat 2 La. 553 1831 0 Successions, property, community property, divorcesales, simulation, fraud, injunction, partition, consideration, capacity, hypothecary action, adultery, criminal law Louisiana
Prejean's Heirs v. Le Blanc 3 La. 19 1831 0 Successions, property, reversion Louisiana
Cotton v. Cullen 2 La. 371 1831 0 Successions, partnerships, capacity, agency, debts, property, wills Louisiana
Dismukes v. Musgrove 2 La. 335 1831 0 Sales, trusts, fraud, successions, promissory notes Louisiana
Daunois v. Leeds 2 La. 358 1831 0 Sales, delivery, property, seizure Louisiana
McMaster v. Beckwith 2 La. 329 1831 0 Damages, torts, sales, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Henderson's Ex'ors v. Peachy 30 Va. 64 1831 0 Wills & Estate SC of Appeals VA
Erwin's Executors v. Trion 2 La. 305 1831 0 Property, sales, successions, contracts, mortgages, redhibition, recission Louisiana
Baines v. Higgins 2 La. 220 1831 0 Sales, parol evidence Louisiana
Callava v. Pope 30 Va. 103 1831 0 Action for ejectment SC of Appeals VA
Mercer v. Stark 1 Miss. 451 1831 0 Levy on slaves dispute Mississippi
Turnbull v. Middleton 1 Miss. 413 1831 0 Mortgage dispute Mississippi
Speight v. Gatling 17 N.C. 5 1831 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina