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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Pepper v. Dunlap 5 La. 200 1850 0 Mortgages, property, sales, judicial seizure, privileges, fraud Louisiana
State v. Levy 5 La. 64 1850 0 Criminal law, larceny, witness competency, emancipation Louisiana
Bird v. Black 5 La. 189 1850 0 Partnerships, marital property, sales, successions, mortgages Louisiana
Adle v. Anty 5 La. 631 1850 0 Judicial mortgages, property, hypothecary action, prescription, preemption, contracts, incapacity Louisiana
Dugas v. Estiletts 5 La. 559 1850 0 Redhibition, sales, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Gaulden v. McPhaul 4 La. Ann. 79 1849 0 Conversion, trusts, mandates, assault, damages Louisiana
Western v. Pollard 55 Ky. 315 1855 0 Kentucky
Louisiana State Bank v. Dumartrait 4 La. Ann. 483 1849 0 Notice, promissory notes, defective service Louisiana
Neely v. Police Jury 4 La. Ann. 181 1849 0 Taxes, property, wages Louisiana
Johnson v. Imboden 4 La. Ann. 178 1849 0 Suretyship, successions, fraud, possessory action, property, conflict of laws Louisiana
McCurdy v. Terry 33 Ga. 49 1861 0 Recovery for Covenant Supreme Court of Georgia
Maull v. Hays 12 Ala. 499 1847 0 Right of Property Alabama
Beall v. Ledlow 14 Ala. 523 1848 0 Right of Property Alabama
Moore v. Thibodeaux 4 La. Ann. 74 1849 0 Tutorship, successions, property, marital property, sales, prescription, suretyship Louisiana
Richards v. Stewart 2 Day 328 1806 0 Action of trover Connecticut
Lewis & Nichols v. Gilmer 11 Miss. 560 1844 0 Adverse posession of a slave Mississippi
Johnston v. Cammack, Squires & West 13 La. Ann. 594 1858 0 Sequestration, mortgage Louisiana
Succession of Ynogoso 13 La. Ann. 559 1858 0 Successions, judicial mortgages, privileges, property Louisiana
Anderson v. McCullough 40 Tenn. 614 1859 0 Tennessee
Mayo v. Stroud 12 La. 105 1845 0 Successions, sales, seizure, partition, peremptory exceptions, property, fraud Louisiana