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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Copley v. Moody 2 La. Ann. 487 1847 0 Sales, property, title, seizure, mortgages, litigious rights Louisiana
Freeman v. Stacy 2 La. Ann. 615 1847 0 Title, leases, sales, litigious rights, property, fieri facias Louisiana
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
Farrar v. Rowly 2 La. Ann. 475 1847 0 Hypothecary action, mortgages, community property, stocks, seizure, sales, privileges, contracts Louisiana
Lynch v. Kitchen 2 La. Ann. 843 1847 0 Warranty, mortgages, property, sales, seizure, subrogation, res judicata, damages, eviction Louisiana
Groves v. Steel 2 La. Ann. 480 1847 0 Promissory notes, sales, community property, debts, deeds, simulation, fraud, suretyship Louisiana
Sanders v. Carson 2 La. Ann. 393 1847 0 Community property, seizure, mortgages, successions, sales, privileges, debts Louisiana
Pahnvitz v. Fassman 2 La. Ann. 625 1847 0 Redhibition, sales, runaway enslaved person, warranty, newly discovered evidence, witness testimony Louisiana
Harvey v. Kendall 2 La. Ann. 748 1847 0 Redhibition, sales, damages Louisiana
Dunlap v. Hundly 2 La. Ann. 212 1847 0 Sales, seizure, promissory notes, affidavits, debts, damages, witness testimony, conflict of laws Louisiana
Dickerman v. Reagan 2 La. Ann. 440 1847 0 Community property, debts, agency, conflict of laws Louisiana
Cavelier v. Moss 2 La. Ann. 584 1847 0 Title, prescription, sales, runaway enslaved person, witness testimony, eviction Louisiana
Perot v. Chambers 2 La. Ann. 800 1847 0 Mortgages, property, bonds, seizure, sales, fieri facias, privileges, recordation Louisiana
Gilbert v. Meriam 2 La. Ann. 160 1847 0 Tutorship, suretyship, prescription, dales, property, successions Louisiana
Smith v. Walker 16 Miss. 131 1847 1 Mississippi
Bell v. Murphy 2 La. Ann. 765 1847 0 Promissory notes, successions, mortgages, property Louisiana
Stachlin v. Destrehan 2 La. Ann. 1019 1847 0 Damages, larceny, battery, jury selection, property, trespass, jury instruction, venue Louisiana
State v. Bogan 2 La. Ann. 838 1847 0 Dram shop law, criminal law Louisiana
Brinegar v. Griffin 2 La. Ann. 154 1847 0 Partnerships, debts, sales, property, liquidation, conflict of laws Louisiana