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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Harrell v. Harrell 12 La. Ann. 549 1857 0 Partition, intestacy, marital property Louisiana
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
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
Johnson v. Bloodworth 12 La. Ann. 699 1857 0 Mortgages, unrecorded acts, vendor's privileges Louisiana
Rochel v. Berwick 12 La. Ann. 847 1857 0 Probate, promissory notes Louisiana
Linton v. Wikoff 12 La. Ann. 880 1857 0 Testaments, manumission, res judicata Louisiana
Farwell v. Harris 12 La. Ann. 50 1857 0 Theft of enslaved person, dispute over ownership of enslaved person Louisiana
Whann v. Hufty 12 La. Ann. 280 1857 0 Property, seizure, attachments Louisiana
Holland v. Miller 12 La. Ann. 624 1857 0 Consideration, judgment made on insane person, recovery for enslaved persons, contracts, fraud Louisiana
Edwards v. Glasson 12 La. Ann. 586 1857 0 Promissory notes, redhibition, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Lewis v. City of New Orleans 12 La. Ann. 190 1857 0 Negligence, death and imprisonment of enslaved person, police misconduct Louisiana
Loubière v. LeBlanc 12 La. Ann. 210 1857 0 Heirs, promissory notes, debts, property, successions Louisiana
Spencer v. Banister 12 La. Ann. 766 1857 1 Louisiana
Fail v. McArthur 31 Ala. 26 1857 0 Conversion of Enslaved Persons Alabama
Homesley v. Hogue 49 N.C. 481 1857 0 Action of trover North Carolina
Bridges v. Wilkins 56 N.C. 342 1857 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
Simpson v. Houston 56 N.C. 487 1857 0 Suit in equity North Carolina