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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Hicks v. Calvit 5 Mart. (o.s.) 691 1818 0 Successions, property, community property, intestacy Louisiana
Lucile v. Toustin 5 Mart. (o.s.) 611 1818 0 Adverse possession, evidence, sales, prescription, parol evidence, contracts, conflict of laws, best evidence rule Louisiana
Delacroix v. Orleans Navigation Co. 5 Mart. (o.s.) 507 1818 0 Contracts, wages, recission, obligations Louisiana
Gardner v. Harbour 5 Mart. (o.s.) 408 1818 0 Wills, successions, property, partition Louisiana
Maurin v. Martinez 5 Mart. (o.s.) 432 1818 0 Sales, recission, redhibition, successions, warranty, prescription Louisiana
Metayer v. Noret 5 Mart. (o.s.) 566 1818 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, intervenor, evidence, seizure, property, conflict of laws, prescription Louisiana
Pierce v. Grays 5 Mart. (o.s.) 367 1818 0 Sales, property, donations inter vivos, revocation, parol evidence Louisiana
State v. Edward 5 Mart. (o.s.) 474 1818 0 Libely, sales Louisiana
Holmes v. Patterson 5 Mart. (o.s.) 693 1818 0 Successions, property, sales, contracts, consideration, donations Louisiana
Highlander v. Fluke 5 Mart. (o.s.) 442 1818 0 Property, seizure, sales, consideration, witness testimony, fraud, debts Louisiana
Mayes v. Calvit 5 Mart. (o.s.) 669 1818 0 Sales, delivery, consideration, promissory notes, property, seizure, evidence Louisiana
Zanico v. Habine 5 Mart. (o.s.) 372 1818 0 Sales, seizure, statutory interpretation, evidence, property, recission, redhibition, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Fortier v. M'Donogh 4 Mart. (o.s.) 718 1817 0 Wages, labor, damages, contracts Louisiana
Stockdale v. Escaut 4 Mart. (o.s.) 564 1817 0 Sales, evidence, parol evidence, property Louisiana
Cooley v. Lawrence 4 Mart. (o.s.) 639 1817 0 Sales, promissory notes, contracts, debts, evidence, obligations, suretyship, indemnification, privileges Louisiana
Foster v. Dupre 5 Mart. (o.s.) 6 1817 0 Property, libel, seizure, contracts, assumption, consideration, damages, torts Louisiana
Duncan v. Cevallos' Ex'rs 4 Mart. (o.s.) 571 1817 0 Sales, fraud, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, evidence, witness testimony, recission Louisiana
Seville v. Chretien 5 Mart. (o.s.) 275 1817 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, res judicata, witness testimony, Louisiana
Gale v. Davis' heirs 4 Mart. (o.s.) 645 1817 0 Successions, partition, wills, property, community property, mortgages, sales, damages Louisiana
Bayon v. Tricou 5 Mart. (o.s.) 1 1817 0 Property, sales, recission Louisiana