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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Bailey v. James 52 Va. 468 1854 1 Virginia
Starr v. State 25 Ala. 38 1854 1 Alabama
Bass v. Chambliss 9 La. Ann. 376 1854 0 Estates, promissory notes, sales, mortgages Louisiana
Parham v. Cobb 9 La. Ann. 423 1854 0 Estates, property, dissolution, suretyship Louisiana
Guyol v. Chouteau 19 Mo. 546 1854 1 Missouri
Smith v. Nettles 9 La. Ann. 455 1854 0 Probate, sales, mortgages, obligations, contracts Louisiana
Latham v. Pledger 11 Tex. 439 1854 0 Property dispute Texas
State v. Wupperman 13 Tex. 33 1854 0 Indictment for failure to produce slave Texas
Woodland v. Wallis 6 Md. 151 1854 0 Maryland
De Young v. De Young 9 La. Ann. 545 1854 0 Marital property, debts, promissory notes, fraud Louisiana
Stewart v. City of New Orleans 9 La. Ann. 461 1854 0 Police brutality, property, murder of enslaved person, municipal liability Louisiana
Lusk v. Swon 9 La. Ann. 367 1854 0 Runaway enslaved person, contracts, emancipation, sales Louisiana
Dufief v. Boykin 9 La. Ann. 295 1854 0 Sales, property, judicial seizure, mortgages, possessory rights, eviction Louisiana
Gilmore v. Gilmore 9 La. Ann. 197 1854 0 Successions, property, sales, partition Louisiana
Bird v. Vail 9 La. Ann. 176 1854 0 Emancipation, successions, wills Louisiana
Pepper v. Dunlap 9 La. Ann. 137 1854 0 Sales, judicial seizure, property, prescription, eviction Louisiana
Augusta Insurance v. Packwood 9 La. Ann. 74 1854 0 Insolvency, debts, property, mortgages, res judicata Louisiana
Eulalie v. Long 9 La. Ann. 9 1854 0 Kidnapping, emancipation Louisiana
City of New Orleans v. Philippi 9 La. Ann. 44 1854 0 Taxes, property, ordinance, municipal code Louisiana
Hall v. Harris 11 Tex. 300 1854 0 Trust deed of slaves dispute Texas