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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Benoit v. Benoit's Heirs 8 La. 228 1835 0 Partition, property, successions, prescription Louisiana
Fagot v. Porche 7 La. 562 1835 0 Partnerships, promissory notes, seizure, sales, parol evidence Louisiana
United States v. Battiste 24 F. Cas. 1042 1835 0 Indictment of slave trader United States
Berluchaux v. Berluchaux 7 La. 539 1835 0 Partition, successions, wills, property, tutorship Louisiana
Hicks v. Pope 8 La. 554 1835 0 Successions, property, community property, conflict of laws Louisiana
Wells v. Walker 8 La. 14 1835 0 Petitory action, property, sales, fraud, recordation, privileges Louisiana
Guilliet v. Erwin 7 La. 580 1835 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, prescription Louisiana
Strawbridge v. Turner 8 La. 537 1835 0 Torts, runaway enslaved person, liability, damages Louisiana
Icar v. Suares 7 La. 517 1835 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, damages, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Mitcell v. Johnson 8 La. 525 1835 0 Property, sales, privileges, mortgages, contracts Louisiana
Boree v. Kellar 7 La. 500 1835 0 Petitory action, default judgment Louisiana
Mortee v. Roach's Syndic 8 La. 81 1835 0 Recission, sales, debts, syndic, mortgages, privileges, property Louisiana
Fenwick v. Tooker 4 D.C. 641 1835 0 Freedom Petition United States
United States v. Frye 4 D.C. 539 1835 0 United States
Sawyer v. Fitts 2 Port. 9 1835 1 Alabama
United States v. Henning 4 D.C. 645 1835 0 Pennitentary Act of the District of Columbia United States
United States v. Davis 25 F. Cas. 775 1835 0 Freedom suit United States
Jack v. Martin 14 Wend. 507 1835 0 Recovery for Freedom Court for the Correction of Errors of New York
Harrison v. Hicks 1 Port. 423 1835 0 Trover Alabama
United States v. Henning 4 D.C. 608 1835 0 Illegal sale of freeperson United States