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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▼ Jurisdiction
Le Breton v. Morgan 4 Mart. (n.s.) 138 1826 0 Injunction, seizure, sales, taxes Louisiana
Gorton v. Gorton's Executor 12 La. 476 1838 0 Injunction, seizure, sales, mortgages, successions, property, promissory notes, suretyship Louisiana
Abadie v. Poydras 6 Mart. (n.s.) 26 1827 0 Injunction, seizure, mortgages, debts, property, community property 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
Foutelet v. Murrell 9 La. 291 1836 0 Injunction, sales, seizure, successions, property, community property, fraud, mortgages Louisiana
Hooper v. Hyams 1 Rob. 90 1841 0 Injunction, sales, redhibition, recission, successions, suretyship Louisiana
Tucker v. Peebles's Curator 10 La. 403 1836 0 Injunction, sales, property, successions, wills, conflict of laws Louisiana
Petrovic v. Hyde 16 La. 223 1840 0 Injunction, sales, mortgages, promissory notes, partnerships, property, seizure, debts, damages, contracts Louisiana
Byrne v. Taylor 2 Rob. 341 1842 0 Injunction, sales, mortgages, privileges, writ of fifa, property, seizure Louisiana
Gardere v. Fisk 6 Mart. (n.s.) 387 1828 0 Injunction, sales, mortgages, debts, parol evidence Louisiana
Mayes v. Smith 11 Rob. 505 1845 0 Injunction, sales, damages Louisiana
Thornton v. Davis 4 D.C. 500 1835 0 Injunctions United States
Capehart v. Mhoon 45 N.C. 30 1852 0 Injunctions North Carolina
Weeks v. Flower 9 La. 379 1836 0 Injunction, property, seizure, sales, damages, privileges, partnerships, fraud, consideration, fieri facias, simulation Louisiana
Wells v. Hunter 5 Mart. (n.s.) 119 1826 0 Injunction, property, sales, successions, res judicata, contracts Louisiana
Ham v. Herriman 1 Mart. (n.s.) 535 1823 0 Injunction, property, sales, fraud, recission Louisiana
Balfour v. Chew 5 Mart. (n.s.) 517 1827 0 Injunction, property, mortgages, seizure, wills, recordation, conflict of laws Louisiana
Bostwick v. Gasquet 11 La. 534 1838 0 Injunction, property, community property, fraud, seizure Louisiana
Vaugh v. Cox 27 Miss. 701 1854 0 Injunction preventing the removal of enslaved persons from the state Mississippi
Bauduc v. Domingon 8 Mart. (n.s.) 434 1830 0 Injunction, partnerships, debts, fraud, reconventional demand, sales, property Louisiana