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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Freeman v. Stacy 2 La. Ann. 615 1847 0 Title, leases, sales, litigious rights, property, fieri facias Louisiana
Jones & Co. v. Jones 12 Ala. 244 1847 1 Alabama
Richardson v. Pumphrey 2 La. Ann. 448 1847 0 Partnerships, fraud, contracts, damges, promissory notes, property Louisiana
Dwight v. Carson 2 La. Ann. 459 1847 0 Sales, freedom suit, eviction, seizure, bonds, obligations Louisiana
Taylor v. Rundell 2 La. Ann. 367 1847 0 Sales, community property, successions, mortgages, promissory notes, hypothecary action, prescription, privileges, capacity Louisiana
Farrar v. Rowly 2 La. Ann. 475 1847 0 Hypothecary action, mortgages, community property, stocks, seizure, sales, privileges, contracts Louisiana
Clark v. Preston 2 La. Ann. 580 1847 0 Successions, community property, sales, wills, debts, promissory notes, testamentary intent Louisiana
Quigley v. Campbell 12 Ala. 58 1847 1 Alabama
Meeker v. Commissioners of the Clinton & Port Hudson Railroad 2 La. Ann. 971 1847 0 Bonds, sales, property, mortgages, stocks, privileges, obligations, promissory notes, contracts, seizure Louisiana
Grayson v. Mayo 2 La. Ann. 927 1847 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, sales, successions, prescription, property, contracts, debts Louisiana
Eugenie v. Preval 2 La. Ann. 180 1847 0 Freedom suit, property, conflict of laws, statutory interpretation Louisiana
Groves v. Steel 2 La. Ann. 480 1847 0 Promissory notes, sales, community property, debts, deeds, simulation, fraud, suretyship Louisiana
Newman v. James 12 Ala. 29 1847 0 Conveyance of an Enslaved Person as a Gift Alabama
Sanders v. Carson 2 La. Ann. 393 1847 0 Community property, seizure, mortgages, successions, sales, privileges, debts Louisiana
Osburn v. Curtis 2 La. Ann. 764 1847 0 Privileges, promissory notes, property, fieri facias, seizure, sales, obligations Louisiana
Pahnvitz v. Fassman 2 La. Ann. 625 1847 0 Redhibition, sales, runaway enslaved person, warranty, newly discovered evidence, witness testimony Louisiana
Graham v. Burckhalter 2 La. Ann. 415 1847 0 Bonds, attachment, perepmtion, debts Louisiana
Soileau v. Rougeau 2 La. Ann. 766 1847 0 Successions, community property, donations, nullity of form Louisiana
Webb v. Kemp 2 La. Ann. 370 1847 0 Fieri facias, seizure, sales, property, prescription, damages, negligence Louisiana
Amonett v. Fisk 2 La. Ann. 263 1847 0 Successions, sales, mortgages Louisiana