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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▼ Jurisdiction
Hand v. Armstrong 34 Ga. 232 1866 0 Recovery Action on a promissory note Supreme Court of Georgia
Nelson v. Iverson 17 Ala. 216 1850 0 Recovery action for enslaved persons Alabama
Perry v. Hudson 10 Ga. 362 1851 0 Recovery action Supreme Court of Georgia
Sims v. Macon & Western R. R. 28 Ga. 93 1859 0 Recover value of slave Supreme Court of Georgia
Stell v. Glass 1 Ga. 475 1846 0 Recover the trust Supreme Court of Georgia
Campbell v. Wallace 3 Yeates 271 1801 0 Recover price of slaves SC of PA.
Moran v. Davis 18 Ga. 722 1855 0 Recover of value lost after slave drowned Supreme Court of Georgia
Beverley v. Walden 61 Va. 147 1870 0 Recover of land SC of Appeals VA
Frith v. Sprague 14 Mass. 455 1817 0 Recover for money paid Massachusetts
Garrett v. Gaines 6 Tex. 435 1851 0 Recover for faulty warranty on slave Texas
Walden v. Smith 29 Ala. 417 1856 0 Recover Enslaved Personsfor Hire Alabama
Kingsbury v. Chatham Rail Road 66 N.C. 284 1872 0 Recover amount for a slave North Carolina
Madry v. Young 3 La. 160 1831 0 Recordation, sales, parol evidence, conflict of laws, delivery, petitory action, contracts Louisiana
Flower v. Millaudon 19 La. 185 1841 0 Reconventional demand, loans, promissory notes, mortgages, contracts, seizure, sales Louisiana
Blondeau v. Gales 8 Mart. (o.s.) 313 1820 0 Recission, sales, runaway enslaved person, redhibition, robbery Louisiana
Sikes v. Allen 2 Mart. (n.s.) 622 1824 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, warranty Louisiana
Chretien v. Theard 11 Mart. (o.s.) 11 1822 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, prescription Louisiana
Bocod v. Jacobs 2 La. 408 1831 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Compton v. Woolfolk 6 La. 272 1833 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, promissory notes Louisiana
Dunbar v. Nichols 10 Mart. (o.s.) 184 1821 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, prescription, witness testimony Louisiana