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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Samory v. Hebrard 17 La. 555 1841 0 Fieri facias, property, interrogatories, simulation, fraud, privileges, obligations Louisiana
Deaver v. Parker 37 N.C. 40 1841 1 North Carolina
Thibodeaux v. Thomasson 17 La. 353 1841 0 Property, recission, sales, fraud, simulation, promissory notes, contracts Louisiana
Fleytas v. Pontchartrain Rail Road 18 La. 339 1841 0 Murder, negligence, torts Louisiana
Bronaugh v. Neal 1 Rob. 23 1841 0 Suretyship, reconventional demand, promissory notes, contracts, delivery Louisiana
Klady v. McGuire 1 Rob. 25 1841 0 Jurisdiction, sales, criminal law Louisiana
Kiper v. Nuttall 1 Rob. 46 1841 0 Promissory notes, suretyship, sales, warranty, redhibition Louisiana
Dorsey v. Phelan 1 Rob. 28 1841 0 Community property, property, seizure, sales, damages Louisiana
Knight v. Murchison 1 Rob. 31 1841 0 Intervernor, property, community property, conflict of laws, simulation, sales Louisiana
Wafer v. Pratt 1 Rob. 41 1841 0 Fieri facias, sales, adverse possession, damages, seizure, property Louisiana
Capdeviel v. Dodd 17 La. 149 1841 0 Promissory notes, sales, successions, consideration, redhibition, recission, witness testimony Louisiana
Barrett v. Bullard 19 La. 281 1841 0 Sales, redhibition, promissory notes, recission Louisiana
Plicque & Lebeau v. Perret 19 La. 318 1841 0 Promissory notes, sales, mortgages, debts, internveor, res judicata, property Louisiana
Moffatt v. Murray 18 La. 357 1841 0 Promissory notes, liability, mortgages, partnerships, fraud Louisiana
Edwards v. Martin's Heirs 19 La. 284 1841 0 Freedom suit, sales, successions, property Louisiana
Kemper's Heirs v. Hulick 19 La. 349 1841 0 Successions, petitory action, property Louisiana
Hood v. Segrest 1 Rob. 109 1841 0 Petitory action, delivery, possessory action Louisiana
Duncan v. Elam 1 Rob. 135 1841 0 Seizure, sales, property, promissory notes, mortgages, recordation Louisiana
Foster v. Mansfield 44 Mass. 412 1841 1 Massachusetts
Baird v. Livingston 1 Rob. 182 1841 0 Debts, sales, mortgages, prescription, contracts Louisiana