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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▼ Law Type Jurisdiction
Briscoe v. Corri 1 Dallam 556 1844 0 Recovery for slave Texas
Bryant v. Kelton 1 Tex. 415 1846 0 Debt dispute Texas
Alexander v. Polk 39 Miss. 737 1861 0 Evidentiary issues regarding a deed as evidence Mississippi
Weathersby v. Weathersby 39 Miss. 652 1861 0 Recovery of slaves that were given by husband to a wife as part of separation Mississippi
Avery v. Avery 12 Tex. 54 1854 0 Suit to recover a slave Texas
Hoover v. Wells 39 Miss. 445 1860 0 Entitlement to slaves posessed by wife under 1839 Act Mississippi
Garnett v. Cowles 39 Miss. 60 1860 0 Will providing for emancipation of slaves by purchase for freedom Mississippi
Dibrell v. Carlisle 48 Miss. 691 1873 0 Use of slaves to secure a debt Mississippi
Wilbourn v. Wilbourn 48 Miss. 38 1873 0 Appropriation of cotton raised by slaves in an estate Mississippi
Dozier v. Freeman 47 Miss. 647 1873 0 Power of trustee to sell slaves in a trust Mississippi
McDaniel v. Johns 45 Miss. 632 1871 0 Disposistion of slaves given as property as gifts in a will Mississippi
Farley, Jurey & Co. v. Hord 45 Miss. 96 1871 0 Authority of administrator to incur debts for maintenance of estate Mississippi
Whitworth v. Carter 43 Miss. 61 1870 0 Disability of married woman to make contracts, emancipation and breach of warranty Mississippi
Baggett v. Beard 43 Miss. 120 1870 0 Suit on bonds for sequestration and injunction in suit to recover property, inlcuding slaves Mississippi
Richardson v. Futrell 42 Miss. 525 1869 0 Debtor agreement to invest in slaves and who bears the burden of investment Mississippi
West v. Gibbs 42 Miss. 168 1868 0 Administration of an estate Mississippi
Blewett v. Evans 42 Miss. 804 1869 0 Contract for the sale of slaves and warranties therin Mississippi
Vicksburg & Meridian R. R. v. Green 42 Miss. 436 1869 0 Admissibility of Emancipation Proclamation as evidence of a slave's emancipation for recovery purposes Mississippi
Josephine v. State 39 Miss. 613 1861 0 Evidentiary issues in the murder of a slaveowner's daughter by enslaved woman, and attempted poisoning of the rest of the family Mississippi
Frank v. State 39 Miss. 705 1861 0 Evidentiary issues, including validity of confession, in a B&E committed by enslaved man Mississippi