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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Phillips's Lessee v. Robertson 5 Tenn. 154 1817 1 Tennessee
Meany v. Head 16 F. Cas. 1302 1817 1 United States
Gale v. Davis' heirs 4 Mart. (o.s.) 645 1817 0 Successions, partition, wills, property, community property, mortgages, sales, damages Louisiana
Foster v. Dupre 5 Mart. (o.s.) 6 1817 0 Property, libel, seizure, contracts, assumption, consideration, damages, torts Louisiana
Bayon v. Tricou 5 Mart. (o.s.) 1 1817 0 Property, sales, recission Louisiana
Seville v. Chretien 5 Mart. (o.s.) 275 1817 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, res judicata, witness testimony, Louisiana
Trudeau's Ex'r. v. Robinette 4 Mart. (o.s.) 577 1817 0 Successions, emancipation, sales, freedom suit, property, evidence Louisiana
Petit v. Gillet 5 Mart. (o.s.) 19 1817 0 Abatement, prescription, res judicata, property, evidence Louisiana
Fortier v. M'Donogh 4 Mart. (o.s.) 718 1817 0 Wages, labor, damages, contracts Louisiana
Duncan v. Cevallos' Ex'rs 4 Mart. (o.s.) 571 1817 0 Sales, fraud, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, evidence, witness testimony, recission Louisiana
Stockdale v. Escaut 4 Mart. (o.s.) 564 1817 0 Sales, evidence, parol evidence, property Louisiana
Bayon v. Mollere 4 Mart. (o.s.) 621 1817 0 Petitory action, damages, sales, evidence Louisiana
Cooley v. Lawrence 4 Mart. (o.s.) 639 1817 0 Sales, promissory notes, contracts, debts, evidence, obligations, suretyship, indemnification, privileges Louisiana
Jones v. Gale's Curatrix 4 Mart. (o.s.) 635 1817 0 Sales, debts, novation, mortgages, evidence, successions Louisiana
Lawrence v. Swann 19 Va. 332 1817 0 Suit of injunction SC of Appeals VA
Skinner v. Fleet 14 Johns. 263 1817 0 Recovery for slave SC of New York
Keys v. M'Fatridge 20 Va. 18 1817 1 Virginia
Duval's Executor v. Trent's Devisses 20 Va. 29 1817 1 Virginia
Inhabitants of Windsor v. Inhabitants of Hartford 2 Conn. 355 1817 0 Contract dispute Connecticut
Oatfield v. Waring 14 Johns. 188 1817 0 Recovery for supporting defendant's slave SC of New York