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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Taylor v. Carlile 2 La. Ann. 579 1847 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, community property, seizure, sales, contracts, obligations Louisiana
Broussard v. Broussard 2 La. Ann. 769 1847 0 Service, seizure Louisiana
Pierse v. Amonett 2 La. Ann. 357 1847 0 Possessory action, sales, seizure, suretyship Louisiana
McDaniel v. Reed 12 Ala. 615 1847 1 Alabama
Sanders v. Carson 2 La. Ann. 393 1847 0 Community property, seizure, mortgages, successions, sales, privileges, debts Louisiana
Groves v. Steel 2 La. Ann. 480 1847 0 Promissory notes, sales, community property, debts, deeds, simulation, fraud, suretyship Louisiana
Hynes v. Cobb 2 La. Ann. 363 1847 0 Mortgages, promissory notes, property, contracts Louisiana
Robert v. De St. Romes 2 La. Ann. 135 1847 0 Redhibition, sales, warranty Louisiana
Farrar v. Rowly 2 La. Ann. 475 1847 0 Hypothecary action, mortgages, community property, stocks, seizure, sales, privileges, contracts Louisiana
Collingsworth v. Covington 2 La. Ann. 406 1847 0 Damages, witness testimony, torts Louisiana
Bonin v. Durand 2 La. Ann. 776 1847 0 Seizure, sales, mortgages, property, prescription, peremption Louisiana
Jones v. Laney ex rel. Colbert 2 Tex. 342 1847 0 Action for freedom Texas
Fisher v. Fisher 2 La. Ann. 774 1847 0 Community property, mortgages, intervenor, privileges, trusts, conflict of laws, domicile Louisiana
Meeker v. Commissioners of the Clinton & Port Hudson Railroad 2 La. Ann. 971 1847 0 Bonds, sales, property, mortgages, stocks, privileges, obligations, promissory notes, contracts, seizure Louisiana
Dwight v. Carson 2 La. Ann. 459 1847 0 Sales, freedom suit, eviction, seizure, bonds, obligations Louisiana
Pahnvitz v. Fassman 2 La. Ann. 625 1847 0 Redhibition, sales, runaway enslaved person, warranty, newly discovered evidence, witness testimony Louisiana
Collins & Co. v. Hyslop & Son 11 Ala. 508 1847 1 Alabama
Richardson v. Pumphrey 2 La. Ann. 448 1847 0 Partnerships, fraud, contracts, damges, promissory notes, property Louisiana
Freeman v. Stacy 2 La. Ann. 615 1847 0 Title, leases, sales, litigious rights, property, fieri facias Louisiana
Copley v. Moody 2 La. Ann. 487 1847 0 Sales, property, title, seizure, mortgages, litigious rights Louisiana