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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▼ Jurisdiction
Heard v. Heard 18 Ga. 739 1855 0 Possessory warrant Supreme Court of Georgia
Mills v. Glover 22 Ga. 319 1857 0 Possessory warrant Supreme Court of Georgia
Rutherford v. Newson 30 Ga. 728 1860 0 Possessory Note Supreme Court of Georgia
Brack v. Wood 11 La. Ann. 512 1856 0 Possessory action, witness identification, dispute over ownership of enslaved person, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Adams v. Stuart 4 Rob. 180 1843 0 Possessory action, tutorship Louisiana
Jones v. Lawrence 4 La. Ann. 279 1849 0 Possessory action, trusts, privileges, property, intervenor Louisiana
Richardson v. Scott 6 La. 54 1833 0 Possessory action, successions, property Louisiana
Waddil v. Thompson 7 La. Ann. 592 1852 0 Possessory action, successions, legal representatives Louisiana
Sears v. Wilson 5 La. 689 1850 0 Possessory action, sequestration, adverse possession, successions Louisiana
Duke v. Routh 2 La. Ann. 385 1847 0 Possessory action, seizure, sales, conflict of laws, default judgment Louisiana
Bernard v. Auguste 6 La. Ann. 24 1851 0 Possessory action, sales, simulation, fraud Louisiana
Pierse v. Amonett 2 La. Ann. 357 1847 0 Possessory action, sales, seizure, suretyship Louisiana
Ludeling v. Graves 3 La. Ann. 597 1848 0 Possessory action, property sales Louisiana
Powell v. McKee 4 La. Ann. 108 1849 0 Possessory action, property, fraud Louisiana
Hood v. Segrest 12 La. 210 1845 0 Possessory action, petitory action, sales, mortgages, property, prescription Louisiana
Gibson v. White 4 La. Ann. 14 1849 0 Possessory action, intervenors, partition, sequestration, property Louisiana
Bell v. Bell 4 La. 470 1832 0 Possessory action, evidence Louisiana
Kemper's Heirs v. Hulick 16 La. 44 1840 0 Possessory action, damages, property, successions, petitory action Louisiana
Oates v. Caffin 3 La. Ann. 339 1848 0 Possessory action, adverse possession, runaway enslaved person, conflict of laws Louisiana
M'Donough v. Childress 15 La. 556 1840 0 Possessory action, adverse possession, prescription, property Louisiana