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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▼ Jurisdiction
Williams v. Allen 17 Ga. 81 1855 0 Deed Supreme Court of Georgia
Vasser v. Vasser 23 Miss. 378 1852 0 Deed Mississippi
Cannon v. Hemphill 7 Tex. 184 1851 0 Decree setting aside property Texas
Saffold v. Saffold 14 Ark. 408 1854 0 Decree pro confesso Arkansas
Fitts v. Fitts 14 Tex. 443 1855 0 Decree of divorce property dispute Texas
Plummer v. Plummer 37 Miss. 185 1859 0 Decree obtained by fraud in division of property Mississippi
Gelstrop v. Moore 26 Miss. 206 1853 0 Decree for the sale of enslaved persons Mississippi
Byrd's adm. v. Belding's heirs 18 Ark. 118 1856 0 Declaration to change heirs Arkansas
Bowie v. Hunter 4 D.C. 699 1836 0 Declarations outside contract United States
Geer v. Huntington 2 Root 364 1796 0 Declaration of freedom Connecticut
Grover v. Gaunt 14 Miss. 317 1846 0 Declaration of bond Mississippi
Terrell v. Bennet 18 Ga. 404 1855 0 Deceit trust Supreme Court of Georgia
Brown v. Shields 33 Va. 440 1835 0 Deceit in the sale of a slave & Action to recover freedom SC of Appeals VA
Hawthorn v. Hunter 35 Va. 411 1836 0 Deceit in the sale of a slave SC of Appeals VA
Gilmer v. Ware 19 Ala. 252 1851 0 Deceit in the Sale of an Enslaved Person Alabama
McDaniel v. Strohecker 19 Ga. 432 1856 0 Deceit for sale of slave Supreme Court of Georgia
Wootten & Goolsby v. Callahan 26 Ga. 366 1858 0 Deceit Supreme Court of Georgia
Glover v. Townsend, Crane & Co. 30 Ga. 90 1860 0 deceit Georgia
Tiernan v. Martin 2 Rob. 523 1842 0 Debt, trusts, property, conflict of laws, contracts Louisiana
Andrus v. Chretien 7 La. 318 1834 0 Debts, suretyship, contracts, sales, seizure, successions, prescription, mortgages Louisiana