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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Buddy v. Vanleer 6 La. Ann. 34 1851 0 Torts, leases, criminal law, negligence Louisiana
Boyle v. Swanson 6 La. Ann. 263 1851 0 Successions, sales, property, mortgages Louisiana
Jones v. Widow & Heirs of Morgan 6 La. Ann. 630 1851 0 Successions, property, sales, donations Louisiana
State v. Jackson 6 La. Ann. 593 1851 0 Criminal law, capital punishment, false confessions Louisiana
Emswiler v. Burham 6 La. Ann. 710 1851 0 Simulation, conversion, sales, property, mortgages Louisiana
Webster v. Smith 6 La. Ann. 719 1851 0 Property, inheritence, conflict of laws, donation mortis causa Louisiana
Pearson v. Grice 6 La. Ann. 232 1851 0 Successions, wills, inheritence, sales Louisiana
Young v. Carl 6 La. Ann. 412 1851 0 Property, wills, mortgages, successions, sales Louisiana
Bernard v. Auguste 6 La. Ann. 24 1851 0 Possessory action, sales, simulation, fraud Louisiana
McDowell v. Couch 6 La. Ann. 365 1851 0 Criminal law, capital punishment, commutations, petitory action, property Louisiana
Huntington v. Ricard 6 La. Ann. 806 1851 0 Property, conversion, leases Louisiana
Boykin v. O'Hara 6 La. Ann. 115 1851 0 Mandates, property, mortgages, judicial sales Louisiana
Deshautels v. Fontenot 6 La. Ann. 689 1851 0 Marital property Louisiana
Bank of Mobile v. Harris 6 La. Ann. 811 1851 0 Mortgages, property, sales, contracts, fraud Louisiana
Judice v. Kerr 8 La. Ann. 462 1853 0 Marital property, mortgages, res judicata, hypothecary action Louisiana
Theriot v. Henderson 6 La. Ann. 222 1851 0 Contracts, breach, reconventional demand Louisiana
Frelson v. Tiner 6 La. Ann. 18 1851 0 Sales, mortgages, redhibition, property, contracts, conflict of laws Louisiana
State v. Capers 6 La. Ann. 267 1851 0 Theft, conversion, property, criminal law Louisiana
Stewart v. Sowles 3 La. Ann. 464 1848 0 Sales, warranty, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, fraud, damages, parol evidence, paternships, contracts, prescription Louisiana
Smith v. Nicholson 6 La. Ann. 704 1851 0 Trespass, conversion, successions, peremption Louisiana