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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Stevens v. Wellington 1 La. Ann. 72 1846 0 Petitory action, sales, property, runaway enslaved person, contracts, garnishment, agency, delivery, torts Louisiana
Erwin v. Lowry 1 La. Ann. 276 1846 0 Successions, administrators, mortgages, promissory notes, property, sales, intervenor, jurisdiction Louisiana
Richardson v. Johnson 1 La. Ann. 389 1846 0 Contracts, warranty, redhibition, quanti minoris, damages, recission Louisiana
Patterson v. Hall 1 La. Ann. 108 1846 0 Trusts, debts, mortgages, obligations, seizure, sales, novation, property, sequestration, privileges Louisiana
Musson v. Clayton 1 La. Ann. 122 1846 0 Redhibition, sales, damages, recission, larceny, pecuniary loss Louisiana
Cammack v. Watson 1 La. Ann. 132 1846 0 Damages, property, fraud, sales, simulation, consideration, prescription, contracts Louisiana
Holmes v. Steamer Chieftain 1 La. Ann. 136 1846 0 Damages, privileges, in rem, witness testimony, impeachment, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Lebœuf v. Merle 1 La. Ann. 144 1846 0 Subgrogation, fieri facias, seizure, mortgages, privileges, recordation, sales, community property, suretyship, bonds, warranty Louisiana
Adle v. Metoyer 1 La. Ann. 254 1846 0 Sales, promissory notes, mortgages, seizure, damages, suretyship, obligations, contracts, parol evidence Louisiana
Watt v. Rice 1 La. Ann. 280 1846 0 Promissory notes, contracts, community property, successions, smancipation, conflict of laws, consideration Louisiana
Kirkland v. New Orleans Gas Light & Banking Co. 1 La. Ann. 299 1846 0 Injunctions, fieri facias, community property, contracts, sales, fraud, simulation Louisiana
Bornet v. Davis 1 La. Ann. 339 1846 0 Freedom suit, damages, sales, warranty, litigious rights Louisiana
Josephine v. Poultney 1 La. Ann. 329 1846 0 Conflict of laws, freedom suit Louisiana
Rideau v. Bornet 1 La. Ann. 408 1846 0 Sales, damages, petitory action, fieri facias, sequestration Louisiana
Weld v. Peters 1 La. Ann. 432 1846 0 Seizure, property, debts, sales, bonds, partnerships Louisiana
Haydel v. Roussel 1 La. Ann. 35 1846 0 Successions, tutorship, promissory notes, partition, sales, mortgages, contracts Louisiana
Michel v. Dolliole 1 La. Ann. 459 1846 0 Emancipation, successions, sales, property, delivery Louisiana
Fernandez v. Bein 1 La. Ann. 32 1846 0 Sales, mortgages, promissory notes, seizure, debts, emancipation, obligations, contracts Louisiana
Fuentes v. Caballero 1 La. Ann. 27 1846 0 Sales, redhibition, warranty, recission, damages Louisiana
United States v. Libby 26 F. Cas. 928 1846 0 Indictiment of slave trader Circuit Court, D. Maine