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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Mims v. Mitchell 1 Tex. 443 1846 0 Action to recover cost of caring for slaves Texas
Michel v. Dolliole 1 La. Ann. 459 1846 0 Emancipation, successions, sales, property, delivery Louisiana
Weld v. Peters 1 La. Ann. 432 1846 0 Seizure, property, debts, sales, bonds, partnerships Louisiana
Hunter v. Whitworth 9 Ala. 965 1846 1 Alabama
Rideau v. Bornet 1 La. Ann. 408 1846 0 Sales, damages, petitory action, fieri facias, sequestration Louisiana
Richardson v. Johnson 1 La. Ann. 389 1846 0 Contracts, warranty, redhibition, quanti minoris, damages, recission Louisiana
Erwin v. Lowry 1 La. Ann. 276 1846 0 Successions, administrators, mortgages, promissory notes, property, sales, intervenor, jurisdiction Louisiana
Josephine v. Poultney 1 La. Ann. 329 1846 0 Conflict of laws, freedom suit Louisiana
Stevens v. Wellington 1 La. Ann. 72 1846 0 Petitory action, sales, property, runaway enslaved person, contracts, garnishment, agency, delivery, torts Louisiana
Carville v. Stout 10 Ala. 796 1846 1 Alabama
Lefebvre v. De Montilly 1 La. Ann. 42 1846 0 Sales, property, fraud, res judicata Louisiana
McFarlane v. Richardson 1 La. Ann. 12 1846 0 Mortgages, seizure, sales, sequestration Louisiana
Sutherland v. DeLeon 1 Tex. 250 1846 1 Texas
Mercier v. Canonge 12 La. 385 1846 0 Successions, privileges, liquidation, community property, sales, tutorship Louisiana
French v. Landis 12 La. 633 1846 1 Louisiana
Lee v. Lee 1 La. Ann. 318 1846 0 Sales, conflict of laws, intervenor, witness testimony, interrogatories, property Louisiana
Beaumon v. Thomas 1 La. Ann. 284 1846 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, property, privileges, sequestration, pledges, sales, obligations, contracts 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
Walker v. Fawcett 29 N.C. 44 1846 1 North Carolina