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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▼ Law Type Jurisdiction
Miles v. Oden 8 Mart. (n.s.) 214 1829 0 Property, conflict of laws, mortgages, seizure, fraud, sales, redhibition, promissory notes, privileges, recission Louisiana
Potter v. Richardson 1 Mart. (n.s.) 276 1823 0 Sales, mortgages, seizure, damages, eviction, bonds, property, injunction Louisiana
Havard v. Stone 5 Mart. (n.s.) 126 1826 0 Debts, injunction, conflict of laws Louisiana
Jackson v. Williams 12 Mart. (o.s.) 334 1822 0 Seizure, sales, petitory actions, successions, mortgages, property, debts, community property, hypothecary action Louisiana
Stafford v. Stafford 5 Mart. (n.s.) 145 1826 0 Wages, petitory action Louisiana
Bernard v. Vignaud 8 Mart. (o.s.) 442 1820 0 Successions, mortgages, property, sales, syndics, hypothecary act, evidence, privileges Louisiana
St. Maxent's Syndic v. Sigur 3 Mart. (o.s.) 371 1814 0 Sales, property, successions, syndic, debts, privileges, res judicata Louisiana
Davis v. Curtis 3 Mart. (n.s.) 142 1824 0 Torts, murder, evidence Louisiana
Surgat v. Potter 12 Mart. (o.s.) 365 1822 0 Sales, agency, mandates Louisiana
Campbell v. Miller 3 Mart. (n.s.) 149 1824 0 Sales, conflict of laws, contracts, mandates, parol evidence, property Louisiana
Palfrey's Syndic v. Francois 8 Mart. (n.s.) 260 1829 0 Sales, fraud, privileges, property, consideration, prescription, debts Louisiana
Beard v. Poydras 4 Mart. (o.s.) 348 1816 0 Property, wills, capacity, witness testimony, emancipation, parol evidence, intestacy, sales Louisiana
Cassou v. Blanque 3 Mart. (o.s.) 390 1814 0 Community property, sales, property, lien, seizure, restitution, mortgages Louisiana
Johnson v. Boon's Heirs 4 Mart. (o.s.) 380 1816 0 Successions, privileges, debts, legitimacy, property Louisiana
McPherson v. Robinson 4 La. 563 1832 0 Freedom suit, continuance Louisiana
Dean ex rel. Vineyard v. Smith 12 Mart. (o.s.) 316 1822 0 Promissory notes, property, abatement, redhibition Louisiana
Fleming v. Lockart 10 Mart. (o.s.) 398 1821 0 Damages, sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, recission, indeminification Louisiana
Prudhomme v. Dawson 3 Mart. (n.s.) 161 1824 0 Community property, prescription, property Louisiana
Skillman v. Lacey 12 Mart. (o.s.) 404 1822 0 Seizure, sales, privileges, mortgages, community property, successions, debts, property, parol evidence, subrogation, prescription, contracts Louisiana
Labranche v. Watkins 4 Mart. (o.s.) 391 1816 0 Runaway enslaved person, sales, petitory action, evidence, prescription, fraud Louisiana