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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Collings v. Hamilton 14 La. 343 1840 0 Contracts, employment, wages, witness testimony Louisiana
Plummer v. Baskerville 36 N.C. 252 1840 0 Deeds North Carolina
Dawson v. Dawson's Ex'or 37 Va. 602 1840 0 Wills & Estate SC of Appeals VA
Baldwin v. Marshall 21 Tenn. 116 1840 0 Tennessee
Shaw v. McFarlane 23 N.C. 216 1840 1 North Carolina
Pepper v. Dunlap 16 La. 163 1840 0 Seizure, sales, property, mortgages, promissory notes, privileges Louisiana
Bray's Executrix v. Bray 16 La. 352 1840 0 Successions, wills, property, sales, partition, promissory notes, mortgages Louisiana
Harris, Wright & Co. v. Halliday 5 Miss. 338 1840 0 Property restoration Mississippi
Huston's Adm'r v. Cantril 38 Va. 136 1840 0 Action of debt SC of Appeals VA
Buffalow v. Buffalow 37 N.C. 113 1840 0 Trusts North Carolina
Tompkins v. Benjamin 16 La. 197 1840 0 Property, successions, tutorship Louisiana
Nelson v. Botts 16 La. 596 1840 0 Property, employment law, wages, sequestration Louisiana
Brander v. Bowmar 16 La. 370 1840 0 Mortgages, promissory notes, sales, recordation, debts Louisiana
Ransone v. Frayser's Ex'ors 37 Va. 592 1840 0 Suit in chancery SC of Appeals VA
Watkins v. Carlton 37 Va. 560 1840 0 Suit in chancery SC of Appeals VA
Gordon v. Nelson 16 La. 321 1840 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, property, endorsement Louisiana
Segur v. Pellerin 16 La. 63 1840 0 Interdiction, capacity, property Louisiana
Dwight & Hartman 16 La. 145 1840 0 revocatory action, property, debts, sales, fraud, promissory notes, privileges Louisiana
Watkinson v. Black 14 La. 351 1840 0 Agency, sales, domicil, sequestration Louisiana
Callender v. McCreary 5 Miss. 356 1840 0 Statute of distrubtions dispute Mississippi