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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Riley v. Wilcox 12 La. 648 1846 0 Agency, property, sales, contracts, partition, employment, witness testimony, breach Louisiana
Overseers of Franklin v. Overseers of Bridgewater 20 N.J.L. 567 1846 Order for removal of pauper New Jersey
Calmes v. Carruth 12 La. 660 1846 0 Sequestration, property, privileges, successions, sales Louisiana
Stevens v. Wellington 1 La. Ann. 72 1846 0 Petitory action, sales, property, runaway enslaved person, contracts, garnishment, agency, delivery, torts Louisiana
Overseers of Franklin v. Overseers of Bridgewater 20 N.J.L. 563 1846 Order for removal of pauper New Jersey
Compton v. Barnes 4 Gill 55 1846 0 Maryland
Fuentes v. Caballero 1 La. Ann. 27 1846 0 Sales, redhibition, warranty, recission, damages Louisiana
Doriocourt v. Jacobs 1 La. Ann. 214 1846 0 Successions, wills, executor, prescription, privileges Louisiana
Fernandez v. Bein 1 La. Ann. 32 1846 0 Sales, mortgages, promissory notes, seizure, debts, emancipation, obligations, contracts Louisiana
Smith v. McMicken 12 La. 653 1846 1 Louisiana
Haydel v. Roussel 1 La. Ann. 35 1846 0 Successions, tutorship, promissory notes, partition, sales, mortgages, contracts Louisiana
Sutherland v. DeLeon 1 Tex. 250 1846 1 Texas
Michel v. Dolliole 1 La. Ann. 459 1846 0 Emancipation, successions, sales, property, delivery Louisiana
Spurlock v. Mainer 1 La. Ann. 301 1846 0 Community property, mortgages, successions, sales, privileges, hypothecary action, fieri facias, contracts Louisiana
Lefebvre v. De Montilly 1 La. Ann. 42 1846 0 Sales, property, fraud, res judicata Louisiana
Chevallier v. Wilson 1 Tex. 161 1846 0 Action to recover slaves Texas
Copley v. Lambeth 1 La. Ann. 316 1846 0 Sales, bonds, suretyship, litigious rights Louisiana
Bennett v. Gamble 1 Tex. 124 1846 0 Levy on slave dispute Texas
Jorda v. Lewis 1 La. Ann. 59 1846 0 Fieri facias, seizure, damages, consideration, property, contracts, fraud Louisiana
Bank of Louisiana v. Farrar 1 La. Ann. 49 1846 0 Bonds, mortgages, community property, contracts, capacity, obligations Louisiana