Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▼ Law Type Jurisdiction
Kimball & Fink v. Friend's Adm' r 95 Va. 125 1897 1 Virginia
Fisk v. Keene 35 Me. 349 1853 1 Maine
Murray v. Laird 446 So. 2d 575 1984 1 Mississippi
Wills v. Foltz 61 W. Va. 262 1907 1 West Virginia
Mason's Devisees v. Peter's Administrators 15 Va. 437 1810 1 Virginia
Wright v. Hencock 17 Va. 521 1812 1 Virginia
Peck v. Bullard 21 Tenn. 41 1840 1 Tennessee
Lawrence v. Trustees of Leake & Watts Orphan House 2 Denio 577 1845 1 New York
Benjamin v. Le Baron's Administrator 15 Ohio 517 1846 1 Ohio
Hudgin v. Hudgin's ex'or 47 Va. 320 1849 1 Virginia
State ex rel. DaPonte v. Board of Assessors 35 La. Ann. 651 1883 1 Louisiana
Powers v. Wright Bro's 62 Miss. 35 1884 1 Mississippi
Priestly v. Watkins 62 Miss. 798 1885 1 Mississippi
Moebus v. Becker 46 N.J.L. 41 1884 1 New Jersey
Keepers v. Fidelity Title & Deposit Co. 56 N.J.L. 302 1893 1 New Jersey
People ex rel. Eakins v. Roosevelt 14 Misc. 531 1895 1 New York
Daniels v. Moses 12 S.C. 130 1879 1 South Carolina
King v. Merryman 196 Va. 844 1955 1 Virginia
United States v. Krebs 104 F. Supp. 670 1951 1 United States
McCargo v. Steele 160 F. Supp. 7 1958 1 United States