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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Merritt v. Burgess 7 La. 434 1844 0 Petitory action, sales, fraud, simulation Louisiana
Parkison v. Boyle 7 La. 82 1844 0 Suretyship, torts, sequestration Louisiana
Amis v. Bank of Louisiana 9 Rob. 348 1844 0 Property, sales, contracts, promissory notes, recission, fraud, personal jurisidiction Louisiana
Wafer v. Hemken 9 Rob. 203 1844 0 Seizure, sales, damages, fraud, property, fieri facias Louisiana
Spencer v. Conrad 9 Rob. 78 1844 0 Successions, community property, contracts, promissory notes, sales, prescription Louisiana
Bird v. Doiron 7 La. 181 1844 0 Partnerships, successions, property, privileges Louisiana
Wall v. Hoskins 27 N.C. 177 1844 1 North Carolina
Jordan v. Wilson 26 N.C. 322 1844 1 North Carolina
Rhodes v. Union Bank 7 La. 63 1844 0 Forced heirs, successions, property, mortgages Louisiana
State v. George 8 Rob. 535 1844 0 Battery, capital punishment, prescription Louisiana
State v. Williams 7 La. 252 1844 0 Criminal law, insurrection, property, conflict of laws Louisiana
Guerin v. Rivarde 8 Rob. 457 1844 0 Community property, marriage, partition, res judicata Louisiana
Plauché v. Roy 7 La. 453 1844 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, syndic, subrogation Louisiana
Fazende v. Hagan 9 Rob. 306 1844 0 Redhibition, sales, runaway enslaved person, recission Louisiana
Williams v. Bank of Louisiana 7 La. 316 1844 0 Mortgages, damages, property, sales, successions, privileges Louisiana
Verdun v. Splane 6 Rob. 530 1844 0 Emancipation, prescription, reconventional demand Louisiana
Macarty v. Roach 7 La. 357 1844 1 Louisiana
Dawson v. Dawson 7 La. 36 1844 1 Louisiana
Fortier v. Slidell 7 La. 398 1844 0 Sales, property, seizure, mortgages, community property Louisiana
Haydel v. Betts 6 Rob. 438 1844 0 Sales, recordation, fraud, redhibition, damages, recission Louisiana