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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Megget v. Lynch 8 La. Ann. 6 1853 0 Fieri facias, debtor's judgment, mortgages, promissory notes, suretyship Louisiana
Sharp v. Davis 8 La. Ann. 92 1853 0 Promissory notes, sales, employment Louisiana
Leblanc v. Walsh 8 La. Ann. 67 1853 0 Sales, mortgages, eviction, property Louisiana
Lewis v. City of New Orleans 12 La. Ann. 190 1857 0 Negligence, death and imprisonment of enslaved person, police misconduct Louisiana
Anderson v. Stille 12 La. Ann. 669 1856 0 Sequestration, partition, property Louisiana
Holland v. Miller 12 La. Ann. 624 1857 0 Consideration, judgment made on insane person, recovery for enslaved persons, contracts, fraud Louisiana
Carmouche v. Carmouche 12 La. Ann. 721 1857 0 Donation inter vivos, usufruct Louisiana
Duperrier v. Dautrive 12 La. Ann. 664 1856 0 Murder of enslaved person, recovery for value of enslaved person, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Barrow v. McDonald 12 La. Ann. 110 1857 0 murder of an enslaved person, accounts, property, liquidation Louisiana
State v. LeBlond 12 La. Ann. 363 1857 0 Criminal law, selling alcohol to an enslaved person Louisiana
Dearmond v. Courtney 12 La. Ann. 251 1857 0 Sales, property, seizure Louisiana
Hayes v. Clarke 12 La. Ann. 666 1856 0 Seizure, property, sales Louisiana
State v. Judge of the Seventh Judicial District 12 La. Ann. 48 1857 0 Writ of mandamus, Seizure, sales, property Louisiana
Hickman v. Flenniken 12 La. Ann. 268 1857 0 Property, successions, tutorship, accounts Louisiana
Wilson v. Hendry 12 La. Ann. 244 1857 0 Mortgages, promissory notes, marital property, successions Louisiana
McRae v. Purvis, Gladden & Co. 12 La. Ann. 85 1857 0 Property, creditor's rights, fraud, Louisiana
Angomar v. Wilson 12 La. Ann. 857 1857 0 Sales, property Louisiana
Louis v. Richard 12 La. Ann. 684 1856 0 Sales, usufruct, property Louisiana
Barclay v. Sewell 12 La. Ann. 262 1857 0 Property, capacity, emancipation Louisiana
Edwards v. Walker 4 Rob. 181 1843 0 Property, sales, seizure, privileges, mortgages Louisiana