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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Davis v. Minor 2 Miss. 183 1835 0 Debt dispute Mississippi
Harkins v. Coalter 2 Port. 463 1835 0 Hiring of Enslaved Personsdispute Alabama
Palfrey v. His Creditors 8 La. 276 1835 0 Syndic, mortgages, privileges, sales, debts, property Louisiana
Slocomb v. Breedlove 8 La. 143 1835 0 Property, intervenor, promissory notes, sales, successions, conflict of laws, debts Louisiana
Strawbridge v. Turner 8 La. 537 1835 0 Torts, runaway enslaved person, liability, damages Louisiana
Gaillard v. Labat 9 La. 17 1835 0 Recission, fraud, redhibition, sales, promissory notes, contracts Louisiana
Bank of Louisiana v. Stansbury 8 La. 257 1835 0 Seizure, sales, mortgages, injunction, property, privileges, community property Louisiana
Hart & Co. v. St. Romes 7 La. 586 1835 0 Torts, theft, liability, damages, trespass Louisiana
Mortee v. Roach's Syndic 8 La. 81 1835 0 Recission, sales, debts, syndic, mortgages, privileges, property Louisiana
Wells v. Walker 8 La. 14 1835 0 Petitory action, property, sales, fraud, recordation, privileges Louisiana
Fagot v. Porche 7 La. 562 1835 0 Partnerships, promissory notes, seizure, sales, parol evidence Louisiana
Offutt v. Hendsley 9 La. 1 1835 0 Seizure, sales, mortgages, injunction, successions, suretyship, privileges, prescription Louisiana
Sawyer v. Fitts 2 Port. 9 1835 1 Alabama
Berluchaux v. Berluchaux 7 La. 539 1835 0 Partition, successions, wills, property, tutorship Louisiana
Hampton's Heirs v. Barrett 9 La. 336 1836 0 Property, community property, debts, successions, privileges, sales Louisiana
Tucker v. Peebles's Curator 10 La. 403 1836 0 Injunction, sales, property, successions, wills, conflict of laws Louisiana
Guerrier v. Lambeth 9 La. 339 1836 0 Damages, torts, property, jury instruction Louisiana
Nichols v. Alsop 10 La. 407 1836 0 Sales, recission, redhibition, damages Louisiana
Chase v. Mayor 9 La. 343 1836 0 Runaway enslaved person, sales, liability, bailment Louisiana
Weeks v. Flower 9 La. 379 1836 0 Injunction, property, seizure, sales, damages, privileges, partnerships, fraud, consideration, fieri facias, simulation Louisiana