Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Morton v. Bradley 30 Ala. 683 1857 0 Action to Recover Damages for Killing an Enslaved Person Alabama
King v. Kent's Heirs 29 Ala. 542 1857 0 Recovery Estate Sold in Orphan's Court Alabama
Powers v. Inferior Court of Dougherty County 23 Ga. 65 1857 0 Equity Action Supreme Court of Georgia
Garr v. Martin 1 Hilt. 358 1857 1 New York
Jones v. Smith 33 Miss. 215 1857 0 Purchase by trustee from cestue que trust Mississippi
Grier v. Ward 23 Ga. 145 1857 0 trepass Supreme Court of Georgia
Bolling's Ex'or v. Harrison 2 Va. (Patt. & Heath) 532 1857 0 Action of debt Special Ct of Appeals VA
Atwell v. Miller 11 Md. 348 1857 0 Maryland
Brooks v. Smith 21 Ga. 261 1857 0 Liable for work slave death Supreme Court of Georgia
Inloes v. American Exchange Bank 11 Md. 173 1857 1 Maryland
Smith v. Croom 7 Fla. 81 1857 0 Establishing Domicile in the State of FL Supreme Court of FL
Thorpe v. Burroughs 31 Ala. 159 1857 0 Action for arresting runaway enslaved person Alabama
Eberlin v. Mayor of Mobile 30 Ala. 548 1857 0 Indictment for Doing Business with Enslaved Persons Alabama
Turner v. Roundtree 30 Ala. 706 1857 1 Alabama
Edelen v. Edelen 11 Md. 415 1857 0 Maryland
Allman v. Owen 31 Ala. 167 1857 1 Alabama
Woodward v. Woodward 37 Tenn. 49 1857 0 Tennessee
Jackson v. Tift 23 Ga. 46 1857 0 slave contract Georgia
Clements v. Glass 23 Ga. 395 1857 0 Action of trover supreme Court of Georgia
Hartshorn v. Williams 31 Ala. 149 1857 1 Alabama