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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
President of the Oriental Bank v. Haskins 44 Mass. 332 1841 1 Massachusetts
Haralson v. Camp 17 La. 267 1841 0 Successions, employment, property, attorney's fees, damages Louisiana
Bourgeois v. Bourgeois 17 La. 494 1841 0 Fieri facias, seizure, sales, property, community property Louisiana
Turner & Renshaw v. Wheaton 18 La. 37 1841 0 Promissory notes, sales, runaway enslaved person, recission, redhibition, warranty Louisiana
Slocomb v. Watkins 1 Rob. 214 1841 0 Promissory notes, obligations, seizure, sales, privileges Louisiana
Comeau v. Fontenot 19 La. 406 1841 0 Property, community property, successions, sales Louisiana
Slatter v. Holton 19 La. 39 1841 0 Sequestration, privileges, conversion Louisiana
Olivier v. Cannon 18 La. 474 1841 0 Torts, conversion, damages, property, sequestration Louisiana
Riggs v. Duperrier 19 La. 418 1841 0 Redhibition, sales, recission Louisiana
Hooper v. Hyams 1 Rob. 90 1841 0 Injunction, sales, redhibition, recission, successions, suretyship Louisiana
Wafer v. Pratt 1 Rob. 41 1841 0 Fieri facias, sales, adverse possession, damages, seizure, property Louisiana
Hermann, Briggs & Co. v. Hootsell 18 La. 419 1841 0 Promissory notes, intervenor, sales, conflict of laws, property Louisiana
Commonwealth v. Turner 44 Mass. 19 1841 0 Indictment for kidnapping Massachusetts
Commonwealth v. Taylor 44 Mass. 72 1841 0 Master did not properly claim custody of adolescent slave Massachusetts
Lawson v. Ripley 17 La. 238 1841 0 Successions, community property, property, debts, partition, sales, contracts, parol evidence Louisiana
Pumphrey v. Prescott 19 La. 345 1841 0 Mortgages, property, seizure, sales, damages Louisiana
Hutchings' Widow v. Johnson's Heirs 19 La. 437 1841 0 Mortgages, petitory action, contracts, seizure Louisiana
McDonald v. Aubert 17 La. 448 1841 0 Seizure, sales, property, privileges, community property, debts, obligations, mortgages Louisiana
Barataria & Lafourche Canal Co. v. Field 17 La. 421 1841 0 Damages, labor, community property, witness testimony Louisiana
M'Cabe v. Gentes 18 La. 31 1841 0 Seizure, sales, promissory notes, damages, mortgages Louisiana