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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Dismukes v. Musgrove 2 La. 335 1831 0 Sales, trusts, fraud, successions, promissory notes Louisiana
Erwin's Executors v. Trion 2 La. 305 1831 0 Property, sales, successions, contracts, mortgages, redhibition, recission Louisiana
Bronaugh v. Bowles 3 La. 120 1831 0 Agencys, successions, property, sales, damages, partition, community property, debts Louisiana
Bouquette's Guardian v. Donnet 2 La. 193 1831 0 Successions, wills, sales, damages, property Louisiana
Joseph v. Moreno 2 La. 460 1831 0 Contracts, specific performance, petitory action, community property, sales Louisiana
Cary v. Gregg 3 Stew. 433 1831 0 Levy on enslaved persons Alabama
Torrance v. Hurst 1 Miss. 403 1831 1 Mississippi
Beale's Heirs v. De Gruy 2 La. 468 1831 0 Sales, mortgages, promissory notes, redhibition, recission, damages, successions, contracts Louisiana
Preston v. Zabrisky 2 La. 226 1831 0 Fraud, possessory action, usufruct, eviction Louisiana
Markham v. Close 2 La. 581 1831 0 Sales, criminal law, peremptory exception, property, battery, property Louisiana
Harrison v. Faulk 3 La. 68 1831 0 Communiy property, damages, sales, sequestration, seizure, taxes, property Louisiana
Burney's Heirs v. Lamothe 3 La. 195 1831 0 Sales, adverse possession, prescription, petitory action, community property, successions, debts, conflict of laws, property, damages Louisiana
Cargill v. Walker 1 Stew. & P. 223 1831 0 Contract Dispute Alabama
Ails v. Bowman 2 La. 251 1831 0 Sales, contracts, runaway enslaved person, recission, redhibition, damages Louisiana
Newsom v. Adams 2 La. 153 1831 0 Parol evidence, conflict of laws Louisiana
Frisbie v. McCarty 1 Stew. & P. 56 1831 0 Detinue Alabama
Kemp v. Wamack 2 La. 272 1831 0 Tutorship, successions, wages, liquidation Louisiana
Flower v. Taliaferro 3 La. 88 1831 0 Sales, petitory action Louisiana
Bach v. Hall 3 La. 116 1831 0 Sales, delivery, possessory action, petitory action, parol evidence, property, contracts Louisiana
Phillips v. Flint 3 La. 146 1831 0 Successions, property, mortgages, debts, privileges, res judicata, petitory action, partition, seizure Louisiana