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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Duncan's v. Poydras's Executors 5 Mart. (n.s.) 492 1827 0 Successions, criminal law, sequestration, damages, seizure, property, prescription Louisiana
Bonne v. Powers 3 Mart. (n.s.) 458 1825 0 Successions, property, petitory action, adverse possession, wills, conflict of laws, property, prescription Louisiana
Overton v. Ex'ors of Morris 3 Port. 249 1836 0 Dispute over Will Alabama
Morgan's Syndics v. Fiveash 8 Mart. (n.s.) 588 1830 0 Torts, employment, property Louisiana
Herriman v. Mulhollan 1 Mart. (n.s.) 605 1823 0 Promissory notes, sales, consideration, property, wages Louisiana
Balfour v. Chew 5 Mart. (n.s.) 517 1827 0 Injunction, property, mortgages, seizure, wills, recordation, conflict of laws Louisiana
Doyal v. Smith 28 Ga. 262 1859 0 Equity action Supreme Court of Georgia
Landreaux v. Hazleton 1 Mart. (n.s.) 600 1823 0 Seizure, property, sales, mortgages, privileges, damages Louisiana
Fox v. Adams 5 Mart. (n.s.) 558 1827 0 Wages, contracts Louisiana
Turnbull v. Cebra 1 Mart. (n.s.) 611 1823 0 Seizure, mortgages, renunciation, community property, contracts Louisiana
Bennett v. Kennerly 40 Tenn. 674 1859 0 Tennessee
Ritchie v. Wilson 3 Mart. (n.s.) 585 1825 0 Promissory notes, property, damages, torts, wages, employment, prescription, reconventional demand Louisiana
Inhabitants of Windsor v. Inhabitants of Hartford 2 Conn. 355 1817 0 Contract dispute Connecticut
Cox v. Wilson 1 Mart. (n.s.) 629 1823 0 Successions, community property, debts, privileges, property, renunciation Louisiana
Innis v. Ware 1 Mart. (n.s.) 643 1823 0 Wages, reconventional demand, leases, newly discovered evidence Louisiana
M'Neely v. M'Neely 1 Mart. (n.s.) 646 1823 0 Petitory action, donations, parol evidence, contracts Louisiana
Morris v. Thames 8 Mart. (n.s.) 687 1830 0 Damages, peremptory exception, successions Louisiana
Mayner v. Rollins 3 Mart. (n.s.) 618 1825 0 Contracts, delivery, fraud, parol evidence Louisiana
Perrie v. Williams 5 Mart. (n.s.) 694 1827 0 Trespass, negligence, damages, property Louisiana
Pepper v. Dunlap 5 La. 200 1850 0 Mortgages, property, sales, judicial seizure, privileges, fraud Louisiana