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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Cotton v. Cullen 2 La. 371 1831 0 Successions, partnerships, capacity, agency, debts, property, wills Louisiana
Dismukes v. Musgrove 2 La. 335 1831 0 Sales, trusts, fraud, successions, promissory notes Louisiana
Thomas v. Thomas 2 La. 166 1831 0 Wills, parol evidence, property Louisiana
Torrance v. Hurst 1 Miss. 403 1831 1 Mississippi
Daunois v. Leeds 2 La. 358 1831 0 Sales, delivery, property, seizure Louisiana
McMaster v. Beckwith 2 La. 329 1831 0 Damages, torts, sales, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Erwin's Executors v. Trion 2 La. 305 1831 0 Property, sales, successions, contracts, mortgages, redhibition, recission Louisiana
Kemp v. Wamack 2 La. 272 1831 0 Tutorship, successions, wages, liquidation Louisiana
State v. Pitot 2 La. 266 1831 0 Promissory notes, sales, successions, mortgages, privileges, wills, property Louisiana
Bach v. Hall 3 La. 116 1831 0 Sales, delivery, possessory action, petitory action, parol evidence, property, contracts Louisiana
Rils v. Questi 2 La. 249 1831 0 Successions, sales, property, debts Louisiana
Smith v. Wilson 2 La. 255 1831 0 Partnerships, successions, property, sales, privileges, debts Louisiana
Sample v. Lamb's Curator 2 La. 275 1831 0 Wages, successions, contracts, privileges, damages Louisiana
Preston v. Zabrisky 2 La. 226 1831 0 Fraud, possessory action, usufruct, eviction Louisiana
Ails v. Bowman 2 La. 251 1831 0 Sales, contracts, runaway enslaved person, recission, redhibition, damages Louisiana
Bouquette's Guardian v. Donnet 2 La. 193 1831 0 Successions, wills, sales, damages, property Louisiana
Frazier v. Frazier's Ex'ors 29 Va. 642 1831 1 Virginia
Smith v. Henry 18 S.C.L. 118 1831 0 South Carolina
Parter v. The Friendship 18 F. Cas. 1271 1831 0 Suit for salvage of alleged slave ship United States
Burwell's Ex'ors v. Anderson 30 Va. 348 1831 0 Suit in chancery SC of Appeals VA