Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Priestly v. Watkins 62 Miss. 798 1885 1 Mississippi
Moebus v. Becker 46 N.J.L. 41 1884 1 New Jersey
Keepers v. Fidelity Title & Deposit Co. 56 N.J.L. 302 1893 1 New Jersey
People ex rel. Eakins v. Roosevelt 14 Misc. 531 1895 1 New York
Daniels v. Moses 12 S.C. 130 1879 1 South Carolina
King v. Merryman 196 Va. 844 1955 1 Virginia
United States v. Krebs 104 F. Supp. 670 1951 1 United States
McCargo v. Steele 160 F. Supp. 7 1958 1 United States
New York Central Railroad v. Winfield 244 U.S. 147 1917 1 United States
Mercantile Adjustment Co. v. Powers 5 La. App. 534 1927 1 Louisiana
Tazewell's Ex'or v. Saunders' Ex'or 54 Va. 354 1856 1 Virginia
Roberts' Adm'r v. Kelly 2 Va. (Patt. & Heath) 396 1857 1 Virginia
Sublette v. Tinney 9 Cal. 423 1858 1 California
Turner v. Smith 11 Tex. 620 1854 1 Recovery of a slave Texas
Hall v. Stryker 9 Abb. Pr. 342 1858 1 New York
Twiggs v. Chevallie 4 W. Va. 463 1870 1 West Virginia
Kilbourne v. Fay 29 Ohio St. 264 1876 1 Ohio
Brewis v. Lawson 76 Va. 36 1881 1 Virginia
Varner v. Inhabitants of Nobleborough 2 Me. 121 1822 1 Maine
Kemmetmueller v. Zachman 220 Minn. 44 1945 1 Minnesota