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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Hooper v. Edwards 20 Ala. 528 1852 0 Assumpsit Alabama
Raines v. Perryman 29 Ga. 529 1859 0 Trover Action Supreme Court of Georgia
Gillespie's Adm'r v. Burleson 28 Ala. 551 1856 0 Dispute over Will Alabama
Burch v. Stovall 27 Miss. 725 1854 0 Validity of will Mississippi
Love v. Crook 27 Ala. 624 1855 0 Specific Recovery of Enslaved Persons Alabama
Wyche v. Greene 26 Ga. 415 1858 0 Will and Trust Supreme Court of Georgia
Brooks v. Smith 21 Ga. 261 1857 0 Liable for work slave death Supreme Court of Georgia
Machem v. Machem 28 Ala. 374 1856 0 Dispute over Will Alabama
Woolfolk v. Beatly 18 Ga. 520 1855 0 injunction Supreme Court of Georgia
Meacham v. Williams 9 Ala. 842 1846 0 Possession of Enslaved Person in Gift Alabama
Sprigg v. Negro Marx 3 H. & J. 491 1814 0 0 Maryland
Stewart v. Redditt 3 Md. 67 1852 0 Maryland
Brown v. Johnson 17 Ala. 232 1850 0 Right of Property Alabama
Lammott v. Gist 2 H. & G. 433 1828 0 Maryland
Nesbitt v. Pearson's Adm'rs 33 Ala. 668 1859 0 Contract Dispute Alabama
Gaulden v. Lawrence 33 Ga. 159 1862 0 contract dispute over slave Supreme Court of Georgia
State v. Hawkins 8 Port. 461 1839 0 Indicment for Stealing an Enslaved Person Alabama
Winter v. State 20 Ala. 39 1852 0 Freedom of Two "Mulattoes" Alabama
Weaver v. Lapsley 42 Ala. 601 1868 0 Contract Dispute over Sale of an Enslaved Person Alabama
John v. Morton 8 G. & J. 391 1836 0 Maryland