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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Wells v. Hunter 5 Mart. (n.s.) 119 1826 0 Injunction, property, sales, successions, res judicata, contracts Louisiana
Douglass v. Curtis 5 Mart. (n.s.) 112 1826 0 Successions, promissory notes, debts, privileges, property, mortgages, sales, discussion, seizure Louisiana
Norwood v. Green 5 Mart. (n.s.) 175 1826 0 Sales, successions, property, conflict of laws Louisiana
Sanders v. Harding's Heirs 5 Mart. (n.s.) 62 1826 0 Successions, property, debts Louisiana
Bayon v. Towles 5 Mart. (n.s.) 1 1826 0 Promissory notes, sales, recission, runaway enslaved person, redhibition, warranty, mortgages Louisiana
Tanner v. Robert 5 Mart. (n.s.) 255 1826 0 Property, successions, community property, partitions, conflict of laws Louisiana
Day v. Thibodeau 5 Mart. (n.s.) 48 1826 0 Petitory action, wills, successions, property Louisiana
Overton v. Archinard 5 Mart. (n.s.) 207 1826 0 Sales, property, delivery, successions, syndic, seizure, mortgages Louisiana
Wright v. Harman 5 Mart. (n.s.) 235 1826 0 Criminal prosecution, sequestration, liability Louisiana
Saulet v. Dreux's Syndics 3 Mart. (n.s.) 615 1825 0 Promissory notes, sales, fraud, syndic, property, injunction Louisiana
Ritchie v. Wilson 3 Mart. (n.s.) 585 1825 0 Promissory notes, property, damages, torts, wages, employment, prescription, reconventional demand Louisiana
Bonne v. Powers 3 Mart. (n.s.) 458 1825 0 Successions, property, petitory action, adverse possession, wills, conflict of laws, property, prescription Louisiana
Selby v. Magruder 6 H. & J. 454 1825 0 Maryland
Brent v. Ervin 3 Mart. (n.s.) 303 1825 0 Promissory notes, parol evidence, leases, obligations Louisiana
Lafon's Heirs v. His Executors 3 Mart. (n.s.) 707 1825 0 Successions, intervenor, privileges, property, sales, wages, prescription Louisiana
Guirot v. Guirot's Syndics 3 Mart. (n.s.) 400 1825 0 Successions, property, community property, privileges, debts, promissory notes, sales, syndic, partnerships, contracts Louisiana
Aubert v. Buhler 3 Mart. (n.s.) 489 1825 0 Injunctions, sales, suretyship, property,, obligations, bonds, debts, fieri facias, mortgages Louisiana
Villars v. Morgan 3 Mart. (n.s.) 529 1825 0 Property, injunction, sales, intervenor, obligations, promissory notes Louisiana
Labarre v. Lambert 3 Mart. (n.s.) 300 1825 0 Sales, recission, intervenor, property, privileges Louisiana
Gurlie v. Coquet 3 Mart. (n.s.) 498 1825 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, property, sales, seizure Louisiana