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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Guilliet v. Erwin 7 La. 580 1835 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, prescription Louisiana
Icar v. Suares 7 La. 517 1835 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, damages, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Harris v. Denison 8 La. 543 1835 0 Sales, petitory action, sequestration, property, successions, fraud, simulation, prescription Louisiana
Hicks v. Pope 8 La. 554 1835 0 Successions, property, community property, conflict of laws Louisiana
Stockton v. Truxton 8 La. 224 1835 0 Promissory notes, sales, seizure, mortgages, fraud Louisiana
Mitcell v. Johnson 8 La. 525 1835 0 Property, sales, privileges, mortgages, contracts Louisiana
Daboval v. Escurix 8 La. 96 1835 0 Seizure, property, sales, mortgages, privileges, injunction, fieri facias Louisiana
Millaudon v. Sylvestre 8 La. 262 1835 0 Partnerships, property, sales, mortgages, fraud Louisiana
Louise v. Marot 8 La. 475 1835 0 emancipation, freedom suit, donations, successions Louisiana
Boree v. Kellar 7 La. 500 1835 0 Petitory action, default judgment Louisiana
Benoit v. Benoit's Heirs 8 La. 228 1835 0 Partition, property, successions, prescription Louisiana
Wells v. Walker 8 La. 14 1835 0 Petitory action, property, sales, fraud, recordation, privileges Louisiana
State v. Reid 18 N.C. 377 1835 1 North Carolina
Harkins v. Coalter 2 Port. 463 1835 0 Hiring of Enslaved Personsdispute Alabama
Strawbridge v. Turner 8 La. 537 1835 0 Torts, runaway enslaved person, liability, damages Louisiana
Dobbs v. Distributees of Cockerham 2 Port. 328 1835 0 Dispute over Will Alabama
Jones v. Sommerville 1 Port. 437 1835 0 Property dispute Alabama
Life & Fire Insurance v. Adams 34 U.S. 573 1835 1 United States
Baylor v. Scott 2 Port. 315 1835 0 Action for sheriff to sell enslaved persons Alabama
Switzer v. Guardians of Holloway 2 Port. 88 1835 0 Action for recovery of a enslaved person Alabama