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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Petit v. Laville 5 Rob. 117 1843 0 Sales, promissory notes, runaway enslaved person, redhibition, recission Louisiana
Rosine v. Bonnabel 5 Rob. 163 1843 0 Freedom suit, conflict of laws, parol evidence Louisiana
New Orleans Gas Light & Banking Co. v. Currell 4 Rob. 438 1843 1 Louisiana
Prudhomme v. Edens 6 Rob. 64 1843 1 Louisiana
Walker v. Vaudry 4 Rob. 395 1843 1 Louisiana
Boner v. Elgee 6 Rob. 6 1843 0 Personal jurisdiction, seizure, sales, property, mortgages, classification, recordation, privileges, damages Louisiana
Lagay v. Chieusse 5 Rob. 132 1843 1 Louisiana
Denton v. Murdock 5 Rob. 127 1843 0 Sales, redhibition, recission, witness testimony Louisiana
Carson v. Dwight 5 Rob. 484 1843 0 Sales, seizure, conflict of laws, emancipation, reconventional demand Louisiana
Arrieux v. Dugas 5 Rob. 453 1843 0 Property, successions, community property, sales, mortgages, privileges, seizure, subrogation, res judicata Louisiana
Kohn v. Miller 5 Rob. 515 1843 0 Property, syndic, fraud, witness testimony Louisiana
Cassidy v. His Creditors 6 Rob. 303 1843 0 Syndic, sales, mortgages, privileges, successions Louisiana
Forsyth v. Wilkinson 5 Rob. 263 1843 0 Sales, redhibition, recission Louisiana
Mathews v. Boland 5 Rob. 200 1843 0 Freedom suit, fraud, witness testimony, contracts Louisiana
Compton v. Compton 6 Rob. 154 1843 0 Property, privileges, intervenor, community property, successions, mortgages Louisiana
Holmes v. Hemken 6 Rob. 51 1843 0 Tutorship, sales, successions, property, seizure Louisiana
In re the Tutorship of Virginia Kershaw 5 Rob. 488 1843 0 Tutorship, successions, competency, witness testimony, property Louisiana
Franciscus v. Surget 6 Rob. 33 1843 1 Louisiana
Jones v. Sidle 5 Rob. 59 1843 1 Louisiana
Prentice v. Chewning 6 Rob. 163 1843 0 Fieri facias, bonds, property, sales, contracts Louisiana