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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Strawbridge v. Turner 8 La. 537 1835 0 Torts, runaway enslaved person, liability, damages Louisiana
Louise v. Marot 8 La. 475 1835 0 emancipation, freedom suit, donations, successions Louisiana
Berluchaux v. Berluchaux 7 La. 539 1835 0 Partition, successions, wills, property, tutorship Louisiana
Benoit v. Benoit's Heirs 8 La. 228 1835 0 Partition, property, successions, prescription Louisiana
Offutt v. Hendsley 9 La. 1 1835 0 Seizure, sales, mortgages, injunction, successions, suretyship, privileges, prescription Louisiana
Gaillard v. Labat 9 La. 17 1835 0 Recission, fraud, redhibition, sales, promissory notes, contracts Louisiana
Fagot v. Porche 7 La. 562 1835 0 Partnerships, promissory notes, seizure, sales, parol evidence Louisiana
Hart & Co. v. St. Romes 7 La. 586 1835 0 Torts, theft, liability, damages, trespass Louisiana
Icar v. Suares 7 La. 517 1835 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, damages, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
State v. Reid 18 N.C. 377 1835 1 North Carolina
Boree v. Kellar 7 La. 500 1835 0 Petitory action, default judgment Louisiana
Wells v. Walker 8 La. 14 1835 0 Petitory action, property, sales, fraud, recordation, privileges Louisiana
Bank of Louisiana v. Stansbury 8 La. 257 1835 0 Seizure, sales, mortgages, injunction, property, privileges, community property Louisiana
Harris v. Denison 8 La. 543 1835 0 Sales, petitory action, sequestration, property, successions, fraud, simulation, prescription Louisiana
Mortee v. Roach's Syndic 8 La. 81 1835 0 Recission, sales, debts, syndic, mortgages, privileges, property Louisiana
Hicks v. Pope 8 La. 554 1835 0 Successions, property, community property, conflict of laws Louisiana
Stockton v. Truxton 8 La. 224 1835 0 Promissory notes, sales, seizure, mortgages, fraud Louisiana
Guilliet v. Erwin 7 La. 580 1835 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, prescription Louisiana
Daboval v. Escurix 8 La. 96 1835 0 Seizure, property, sales, mortgages, privileges, injunction, fieri facias Louisiana
Merrit v. Smith 33 Va. 486 1835 0 Suit in chancery SC of Appeals VA