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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Love v. Raper 39 N.C. 475 1847 0 Suit in equity North Carolina
Hundley v. Mount 16 Miss. 387 1847 0 Will & trust Mississippi
Leach v. Blow 16 Miss. 221 1847 1 Mississippi
Ballinger v. Edwards 39 N.C. 449 1847 1 North Carolina
Edney v. King 39 N.C. 465 1847 0 Suit in equity North Carolina
Graves v. Weeks 19 Vt. 178 1847 1 Vermont
Harrison v. Bradley 40 N.C. 136 1847 0 Estates North Carolina
Gayden v. Marshall 16 Miss. 489 1847 0 Levy on slave Mississippi
Heirs of Holman v. Bank of Norfolk 12 Ala. 369 1847 1 Alabama
Sandridge v. Jones 2 La. Ann. 933 1847 0 Laibility, runaway enslaved person, debts, seizure, laches Louisiana
Wallen v. Huff 1 Shan. Cas. 4 1847 1 Tennessee
Clapp v. Walters 2 Tex. 130 1847 0 Action to recover slave Texas
Newman v. James 12 Ala. 29 1847 0 Conveyance of an Enslaved Person as a Gift Alabama
Heirs of McVoy v. Hallett 11 Ala. 864 1847 1 Alabama
Johnson v. Marsh 2 La. Ann. 772 1847 1 Louisiana
McQuillen v. State 16 Miss. 587 1847 1 Mississippi
City Bank v. Houston 2 La. Ann. 114 1847 1 Louisiana
Bentley v. Phelps 3 F. Cas. 244 1847 1 United States
Dennistoun v. Malard 2 La. Ann. 14 1847 1 Louisiana
Wills v. Spraggins 44 Va. 555 1847 0 Wills & Estate SC of Appeals VA