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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Foster v. Dupre 5 Mart. (o.s.) 6 1817 0 Property, libel, seizure, contracts, assumption, consideration, damages, torts Louisiana
Fouque's Syndics v. Vigniaud 6 Mart. (o.s.) 423 1819 0 Property, debts, sales, consideration, promissory notes, parol evidence Louisiana
Heirs of Johnson v. Johnson 26 La. Ann. 570 1874 0 Property/Will - Wanted brothers to Free slaves and send them to Liberia Louisiana
Succession of Randall 26 La. Ann. 163 1874 0 Marriage laws/Property/Estate Louisiana
Bourgeois v. Billin & Perkins 20 La. 153 1868 0 Secured Transactions, Promissory Notes Louisiana
Davidson v. Carroll, Hoy & Co. 20 La. 199 1868 0 Mortgage, Property, Promissory Notes Louisiana
Armstrong v. Bach 20 La. 190 1868 0 Property - Landlord/Tenant Louisiana
Banks v. Trudeau 2 Mart. (n.s.) 39 1823 0 Promissory notes, community property, suretyship, mortgages, contracts, seizure, privileges Louisiana
Bernardine v. Despinasse 6 Mart. (n.s.) 94 1827 0 Freedom suit, sales, successions, partition, trusts, emancipation, contracts Louisiana
Chretien v. Theard 11 Mart. (o.s.) 11 1822 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, prescription Louisiana
Marigny d'Auterive v. Degruy 2 Mart. (n.s.) 116 1824 0 Privileges, mortgages, wages, property, seizure, sales, novation Louisiana
Barbineau' Heirs v. Castille 7 Mart. (n.s.) 186 1828 0 Mortgages, successions, privileges, debts, renunciation, community property, property, fraud Louisiana
Hannie v. Browder 6 Mart. (o.s.) 14 1819 0 Community property, successions, sales, privileges, property, mortgages Louisiana
Peytavin v. Hopkins 6 Mart. (o.s.) 256 1819 0 Agency, partneships, property, mortgages, seizure, sales, evidence Louisiana
Gravier v. Livingston 6 Mart. (o.s.) 281 1819 0 Successions, property, partition, community property, adverse possession Louisiana
Simmins v. Parker 4 Mart. (n.s.) 200 1826 0 Sales, warranty, damages, warranty, emancipation, contracts, property Louisiana
Bayon v. Tricou 5 Mart. (o.s.) 1 1817 0 Property, sales, recission Louisiana
Ward v. Brandt 11 Mart. (o.s.) 331 1822 0 Damages, partnerships, debts, syndics, property, dissolution, mortgages, bankruptcy, privileges Louisiana
Dufour v. Camfranc 11 Mart. (o.s.) 607 1822 0 Sales, successions, fieri facias, property, prescription, successions Louisiana
Piernas v. Blanque's Syndics 6 Mart. (o.s.) 577 1819 0 Loans, mortgages, sales, debts, fraud, contracts, property Louisiana