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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Blount v. Syms 12 La. 173 1838 0 Property, successions, contracts, petitory action, community property Louisiana
Seghers v. Schmidt 12 La. 207 1838 0 Marriage, property, donations, successions, partition Louisiana
Henry v. Keays 12 La. 214 1838 0 Partition, successions, property Louisiana
Keys v. Nettles 12 La. 381 1838 0 Petitory action, community property, capacity Louisiana
Patterson v. Behan 12 La. 227 1838 0 Theft, property, evidence, damages, jury instructions, robbery Louisiana
Mulhollan v. Huie 12 La. 241 1838 0 Redhibition, sales, promissory notes, recission Louisiana
Poulard v. Delamare 12 La. 267 1838 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, wills, sales, successions, contracts, sales Louisiana
Leeds v. Yeatman 12 La. 383 1838 0 Seizure, sales, property, injunction, suretyship Louisiana
Bourg v. Trahan's Heirs 12 La. 278 1838 0 Partition, property, community property, contracts Louisiana
Conolly v. Bertrand 12 La. 313 1838 0 Sales, recission, redhibition, fraud Louisiana
Clark v. Christine 12 La. 394 1838 0 Community property, fraud, prescription, contracts Louisiana
Vawter v. Gill 12 La. 423 1838 0 Promissory notes, sales, redhibition, recission, damages Louisiana
Cuny v. Robert 12 La. 474 1838 0 Sales, petitory action, warranty, promissory notes Louisiana
Gorton v. Gorton's Executor 12 La. 476 1838 0 Injunction, seizure, sales, mortgages, successions, property, promissory notes, suretyship Louisiana
White v. M'Quillan 12 La. 530 1838 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, seizure, sales, peremptory exception, debts, prescription, property Louisiana
Pannell's Heirs v. Overton 12 La. 555 1838 0 Syndic, property, community property, mortgages, contracts, petitory action, Louisiana
Behan v. Faures 12 La. 211 1838 0 Redhibition, sales, recission Louisiana
Mason v. Mason's Widow & Heirs 12 La. 589 1838 0 Partition, successions, property, donations, community property, promissory notes, collation Louisiana
Fisk v. Hart 11 La. 479 1838 0 Mortgages, property, bonds, seizure, sales, damages Louisiana
George v. Fitzgerald 12 La. 604 1838 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, warranty, damages, personal jurisdiction, property, prescription Louisiana