Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Webb v. Bumpass 9 Port. 201 1839 0 Expose to sale Alabama
Town of Colchester v. Town of Lyme 13 Conn. 274 1839 0 Recovery for freedom Connecticut
Banks v. Wilks 20 Tenn. 279 1839 0 Tennessee
Elijah v. State 20 Tenn. 102 1839 0 Tennessee
Hansford v. Mills 9 Port. 509 1839 0 Contract Dispute over Hiring an Enslaved Person Alabama
Sumner v. Moore 23 F. Cas. 389 1839 1 United States
Nichols v. Burch 5 D.C. 553 1839 0 Assault/Battery, False Imprisonment United States
Adams v. Bell 13 La. 555 1839 0 Petitory action, property, syndic Louisiana
Rochelle v. Rochelle 37 Va. 125 1839 0 Wills & Estate SC of Appeals VA
Marr v. Rucker 20 Tenn. 348 1839 0 Tennessee
Horsely v. Branch 20 Tenn. 199 1839 0 Tennessee
Reed v. Brasher 9 Port. 438 1839 0 Conversion of a enslaved person Alabama
Murphey v. Goin 20 Tenn. 440 1839 0 Tennessee
Magoffin v. Stringer 13 La. 370 1839 0 Promissory notes, sales, successions, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, warranty, debts Louisiana
Kinley v. Fitzpatrick 5 Miss. 59 1839 0 Bill of sale dispute Mississippi
Marshall v. White 8 Port. 551 1839 0 Trover for a enslaved person Alabama
Lenox v. Pike 2 Ark. 14 1839 0 Dentinue in finding enslaved persons Arkansas
Bettis v. Taylor 8 Port. 564 1839 0 Right of Property Alabama
Brown v. Commonwealth 29 Va. 769 1839 0 Fraud General Ct of VA
Reynaud's Heirs v. Peytavin's Executors 13 La. 121 1839 0 Partnerships, property, dissolution, partition Louisiana