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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Knight v. Knight 12 La. Ann. 396 1857 0 Property, dispute over ownership of enslaved person Louisiana
Bennett v. Bennett 12 La. Ann. 253 1857 0 Partition, intestacy, marital property Louisiana
Carlisle v. Tuttle 30 Ala. 613 1857 1 Alabama
Simpson v. Mills 12 La. Ann. 173 1857 0 Judgment creditor, property, dispute over ownership of enslaved person Louisiana
Scott, Carhart & Co. v. Jackson 12 La. Ann. 640 1857 0 Hypothecary action, property, mortgages Louisiana
McCay v. Chambliss 12 La. Ann. 412 1857 0 Promissory notes, consideration, redhibition Louisiana
Dwight v. Mason 12 La. Ann. 846 1857 0 Estates, attachments, curatorship, garnishments Louisiana
Mourain v. Mourain 12 La. Ann. 147 1857 0 Dowry, donations inter vivos Louisiana
Bair v. Abrams 12 La. Ann. 753 1857 0 Dispute over sale of enslaved person Louisiana
Miller v. Stewart 12 La. Ann. 170 1857 0 Employment, beating and murder of an enslaved person, negligence Louisiana
Succession of Grover 12 La. Ann. 334 1857 0 Partnerships, Wills, property, contract Louisiana
Alexander v. Alexander 12 La. Ann. 588 1857 0 Sales of enslaved persons, wills Louisiana
Wolf v. Wolf 12 La. Ann. 529 1857 0 Sales, properties, mortgages, privileges, community property, promissory notes, simulation, contracts, seizure Louisiana
Jackson v. Steamboat Magnolia 61 U.S. 296 1857 1 United States
Townsend v. Hill 18 Tex. 422 1857 0 Texas
Harrell v. Harrell 12 La. Ann. 549 1857 0 Partition, intestacy, marital property Louisiana
State v. King 12 La. Ann. 593 1857 0 Murder, excecution, retroactivity Louisiana
Stein v. Robertson 30 Ala. 286 1857 1 Alabama
Thomas v. Dumas 30 Ala. 83 1857 1 Alabama
Carter v. State 20 Tex. 339 1857 0 Indictment against master for allowing slave to carry firearm Texas