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Case Name ▼ Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Burton v. Hearn 1 Del. Cas. 78 1795 0 Money for illegal transportation of another's enslaved individual Delaware
Burton v. F. A. Seifert & Co. 108 Va. 338 1908 1 Virginia
Burton v. Farinholt 86 N.C. 260 1882 1 North Carolina
Burton v. Dangerfield 141 Ala. 285 1904 1 Alabama
Burton v. Conigland 82 N.C. 99 1880 1 North Carolina
Burton v. Chaney 3 La. Ann. 338 1848 0 Promissory notes, property, sales, prescription, contracts Louisiana
Burton v. Cannon 2 Del. Cas. 30 1807 0 Grant of freedom after line of exchange was interrupted Delaware
Burton v. Cahill 192 N.C. 505 1926 1 North Carolina
Burton v. Burton 4 Del. 38 1843 0 Replevin to which individual in a will Delaware
Burton v. Burton 52 Tenn. App. 484 1963 1 Tennessee
Burton v. Brown's Ex'ors 63 Va. 15 1872 1 Virginia
Burton v. Boyd 7 Kan. 17 1871 1 Kansas
Burton v. Bondies 2 Tex. 204 1847 1 Texas
Burton v. Black 32 Ga. 53 1861 0 Will and Testament Supreme Court of Georgia
Burton v. Belvin 142 N.C. 151 1906 1 North Carolina
Burton v. Baldwin 61 Iowa 283 1883 1 Iowa
Burton v. Anderson 1 Tex. 93 1846 1 Texas
Burton-Sutton Oil Co. v. Commissioner 150 F.2d 621 1945 1 United States
Burton's Heirs v. Burton 14 La. 352 1840 0 Successions, property, debts, partition, doncations Louisiana
Burton's adr. v. Lockert's exrs. 9 Ark. 411 1849 0 Will & trust Arkansas