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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Wolf v. Wolf 12 La. Ann. 529 1857 0 Sales, properties, mortgages, privileges, community property, promissory notes, simulation, contracts, seizure Louisiana
Miller v. Stewart 12 La. Ann. 170 1857 0 Employment, beating and murder of an enslaved person, negligence Louisiana
Quarles v. Grigsby 31 Ala. 172 1857 0 Fraudulent Conveyance Alabama
Turner v. Smith 12 La. Ann. 417 1857 0 Emancipation, will Louisiana
Bair v. Abrams 12 La. Ann. 753 1857 0 Dispute over sale of enslaved person Louisiana
Knight v. Knight 12 La. Ann. 396 1857 0 Property, dispute over ownership of enslaved person Louisiana
A. Montan & Bros. v. Whitley 12 La. Ann. 175 1857 0 Redhibition, recission of slave of enslaved family Louisiana
Holland v. Miller 12 La. Ann. 624 1857 0 Consideration, judgment made on insane person, recovery for enslaved persons, contracts, fraud Louisiana
Mason v. Hall 30 Ala. 599 1857 0 Contract to hire a Enslaved Person dispute Alabama
Linton v. Wikoff 12 La. Ann. 878 1857 0 Debts, secutiries, mortgages, property Louisiana
Johnson v. Bloodworth 12 La. Ann. 699 1857 0 Mortgages, unrecorded acts, vendor's privileges Louisiana
Johnston v. Fort 30 Ala. 78 1857 0 Will & trust Alabama
Girod v. Belknap 12 La. Ann. 791 1857 0 Redhibition, sale of enslaved person Louisiana
Vaughan v. Vaughan's Heirs 30 Ala. 329 1857 0 Dispute over Will Alabama
Howell v. Crane 12 La. Ann. 126 1857 0 Dispute over ownership of enslaved person, promissory notes Louisiana
Richardson v. Bell 12 La. Ann. 296 1857 0 Redhibition, property, recission of sale of enslaved person Louisiana
Carew v. Love's Adm'r 30 Ala. 577 1857 0 Detinue for enslaved person Alabama
Durden v. McWilliams 31 Ala. 206 1857 0 Trial of right of property in enslaved person Alabama
Williams v. Scott 30 Ala. 241 1857 0 Trespass for wrongful taking of enslaved person Alabama
Jones v. Trawick’s Adm’r 31 Ala. 253 1857 0 Trover Alabama