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Case Name ▼ Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Sims v. Smith 59 N.C. 347 1863 0 Suit in equity North Carolina
Sims v. Sims 2 Ala. 117 1841 0 Grifting an Enslaved Person Alabama
Sims v. Knox 18 Ala. 236 1850 0 Assumpsit Alabama
Sims v. Goodwyn 31 Ga. 267 1860 0 Action of trover Supreme Court of Georgia
Sims v. Adm'r of Sims 8 Port. 449 1839 0 Detinue Alabama
Sims’s Case 61 Mass. 285 1851 0 Petition for freedom Massachusetts
Simpson v. Warren 5 Del. 371 1852 0 Returning of two enslaved people who escaped Delaware
Simpson v. Peck's Ex'rs 32 Tenn. 54 1852 0 Tennessee
Simpson v. Mills 12 La. Ann. 173 1857 0 Judgment creditor, property, dispute over ownership of enslaved person Louisiana
Simpson v. McKay 34 N.C. 141 1851 0 Action of covenant North Carolina
Simpson v. King 33 N.C. 377 1850 0 Action of detinnue North Carolina
Simpson v. Houston 56 N.C. 487 1857 0 Suit in equity North Carolina
Simpson's Executors v. Boswell 27 N.C. 49 1844 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
Simon v. State 5 Fla. 285 1853 0 Criminal Procedure Dispute over Confession Supreme Court of FL
Simon v. State 37 Miss. 288 1859 0 Evidentiary issues in the case of a murder by a runaway Mississippi
Simon v. Paine's Administrator 4 D.C. 99 1830 0 Freedom Suit/ Petition United States
Simons v. Simons 23 Tex. 344 1859 0 Texas
Simonds v. Byrne 9 La. Ann. 93 1854 0 Successions, emancipation, sales, parol evidence Louisiana
Simms v. Garrot 21 N.C. 393 1836 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
Simmons v. State 84 Ga 465 1848 0 Slave steal goods Supreme Court of Georgia