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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Simpson v. King 36 N.C. 11 1840 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
Hardie v. Cotton 36 N.C. 61 1840 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
Piercy v. Piercey 36 N.C. 214 1840 0 Suit in equity North Carolina
Wade v. Dick 36 N.C. 313 1840 0 wills & Estates North Carolina
Maloney v. Doane 15 La. 278 1840 0 Torts, slander, jury instructions, malice, evidence, witness testimony, damages Louisiana
Dashiell v. Lesassier 15 La. 101 1840 0 Seizure, sales, property, mortgages, privileges, injunction Louisiana
Kemp v. Kemp 15 La. 517 1840 0 Successions, partition, property, sales Louisiana
Dawson v. Duplantier 15 La. 289 1840 0 Sales, promissory notes, property, seizure, privileges, injunction, redhibition, mortgages, contracts Louisiana
Mix's Absent Heirs v. Mix's Executor 15 La. 66 1840 0 Wills, successions, property, legacies Louisiana
M'Donough v. Childress 15 La. 556 1840 0 Possessory action, adverse possession, prescription, property Louisiana
Pepper v. Dunlap 16 La. 163 1840 0 Seizure, sales, property, mortgages, promissory notes, privileges Louisiana
Harrod v. Voorhies' Administratrix 16 La. 254 1840 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, successions, recordation, debts, prescription, seizure, sales Louisiana
Filhiol's Heirs v. Hempkin 16 La. 326 1840 0 Successions, debts, attorney's fees, sales, property Louisiana
Brosnaham v. Turner 16 La. 433 1840 0 Successions, property, emancipation, legitimacy, wills, conflict of laws, capacity, sales Louisiana
Fulton's v. Gorton's Executor 16 La. 320 1840 0 Injunction, sales, successions, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, seizure, sales, recission, promissory notes, warranty, damages Louisiana
Gillett v. Hall 13 Conn. 426 1840 0 Partnership dispute Connecticut
Gedney v. L'Amistad 10 F. Cas. 141 1840 0 Admiralty United States
Hacker v. Perkins 5 Whart. 95 1840 1 Pennsylvania
M'Intosh v. Ladd 20 Tenn. 459 1840 0 Tennessee
Smith v. Commonwealth 37 Va. 695 1840 0 Larceny of a slave General Ct. of VA