Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
DeBaun v. Atchison 14 Mo. 543 1851 1 Missouri
Fowler v. Waldrip 10 Ga. 350 1851 0 Action of trover Supreme Court of Georgia
Perminter v. Kelly 18 Ala. 716 1851 1 Alabama
Steele v. Brown 18 Ala. 700 1851 0 Sale dispute Alabama
Nelms v. Williams 18 Ala. 650 1851 1 Alabama
Weir v. Clayton 19 Ala. 132 1851 1 Alabama
Neal v. Farmer 9 Ga. 555 1851 0 recovery for damage to a slave Supreme Court of Georgia
Smelser v. Drane 19 Ala. 245 1851 1 Alabama
Morgan v. Morgan 10 Ga. 297 1851 0 Equity Action Supreme Court of Georgia
Lindsay v. State 19 Ala. 560 1851 0 Will & trust Alabama
Sims’s Case 61 Mass. 285 1851 0 Petition for freedom Massachusetts
Garretson v. Vanloon 3 Greene 128 1851 1 Iowa
Cook v. Cook 12 Ark. 381 1851 0 Dower dispute Arkansas
Ewing v. Sanford 19 Ala. 605 1851 0 Alleged Theft of an Enslaved Person Alabama
Smith v. Hooks 19 Ala. 101 1851 0 Trover Alabama
Rhem v. Tull 35 N.C. 57 1851 1 North Carolina
Townshend v. Townshend 9 Gill 506 1851 0 Maryland
Young v. Frost 1 Md. 377 1851 1 Maryland
Lee v. Sprague 14 Mo. 476 1851 1 Missouri
Ragland v. Justices of the Inferior Court ex rel. Jones 10 Ga. 65 1851 0 Slave debt Supreme Court of Georgia