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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Petermans v. Laws 33 Va. 523 1835 0 Action of detinue SC of Appeals VA
Brown v. Shields 33 Va. 440 1835 0 Deceit in the sale of a slave & Action to recover freedom SC of Appeals VA
Bank of Virginia v. Craig 33 Va. 399 1835 0 Suit in equity SC of Appeals VA
Erskine v. Henry 33 Va. 378 1835 0 Suit in equity SC of Appeals VA
Drane v. Scholfield 33 Va. 386 1835 0 Action of assumpsit SC of Appeals VA
Whitton's Adm'r v. Terry 33 Va. 189 1835 0 Action of debt SC of Appeals VA
Berluchaux v. Berluchaux 7 La. 539 1835 0 Partition, successions, wills, property, tutorship Louisiana
Guilliet v. Erwin 7 La. 580 1835 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, prescription Louisiana
Offutt v. Hendsley 9 La. 1 1835 0 Seizure, sales, mortgages, injunction, successions, suretyship, privileges, prescription Louisiana
Gaillard v. Labat 9 La. 17 1835 0 Recission, fraud, redhibition, sales, promissory notes, contracts Louisiana
Hicks v. Pope 8 La. 554 1835 0 Successions, property, community property, conflict of laws 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
Mortee v. Roach's Syndic 8 La. 81 1835 0 Recission, sales, debts, syndic, mortgages, privileges, property Louisiana
Bank of Louisiana v. Stansbury 8 La. 257 1835 0 Seizure, sales, mortgages, injunction, property, privileges, community property Louisiana
Stockton v. Truxton 8 La. 224 1835 0 Promissory notes, sales, seizure, mortgages, fraud Louisiana
Strawbridge v. Turner 8 La. 537 1835 0 Torts, runaway enslaved person, liability, damages Louisiana
Wells v. Walker 8 La. 14 1835 0 Petitory action, property, sales, fraud, recordation, privileges Louisiana
Fagot v. Porche 7 La. 562 1835 0 Partnerships, promissory notes, seizure, sales, parol evidence Louisiana
Hart & Co. v. St. Romes 7 La. 586 1835 0 Torts, theft, liability, damages, trespass Louisiana