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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Newman v. James 12 Ala. 29 1847 0 Conveyance of an Enslaved Person as a Gift Alabama
State v. Marley 30 N.C. 48 1847 0 Assault & Battery North Carolina
Quigley v. Campbell 12 Ala. 58 1847 1 Alabama
Merchants' Bank v. Davis 3 Ga. 112 1847 0 Equity Action Supreme Court of Georgia
Blake v. Irwin 3 Ga. 345 1847 0 Marriage and will Supreme Court of Georgia
Cook v. Kennerly 12 Ala. 42 1847 0 Detinue Alabama
Jordan v. Mead 12 Ala. 247 1847 0 Foreclosure on Mortgages Alabama
Miller v. Eatman 11 Ala. 609 1847 0 Detinue for four enslaved persons Alabama
Dunlap v. Hundly 2 La. Ann. 212 1847 0 Sales, seizure, promissory notes, affidavits, debts, damages, witness testimony, conflict of laws Louisiana
Lindeman v. Theobalds 2 La. Ann. 912 1847 0 Fieri facias, pettitory action, property, seizure, simulation, fraud, recordation, successions, sales, deeds Louisiana
Billingsley v. Harrell 11 Ala. 775 1847 0 Mortgage dispute Alabama
Hobgood v. Brown 2 La. Ann. 323 1847 0 Bonds, fieri facias, sales, seizure, property, fraud, simulation, contracts, privileges Louisiana
Duke v. Routh 2 La. Ann. 385 1847 0 Possessory action, seizure, sales, conflict of laws, default judgment Louisiana
Farrar v. Stacy 2 La. Ann. 210 1847 0 Petitory action, sales, privileges, property, damages Louisiana
White v. Strother 11 Ala. 720 1847 0 Trover Alabama
Hoot v. Sorrell 11 Ala. 386 1847 0 Contract to redeem enslaved persons Alabama
Fontenot v. Her Husband 2 La. Ann. 780 1847 0 Community property, intervenor, sales, successions, tutorship, partition Louisiana
Clements v. Elliott 11 Ala. 360 1847 0 Levy on a enslaved person Alabama
Kenner v. Peck 2 La. Ann. 938 1847 1 Louisiana
Chambliss v. Atchison 2 La. Ann. 488 1847 0 Seizure, sales, mortgages, debts, damaegs, petitory action, privileges, conflict of laws, promissory notes, injunction, recordation Louisiana