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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Prevost v. Martel 10 Rob. 512 1845 0 Wills, property, legitimacy, emancipation, capacity, successions Louisiana
Hanna v. Bartlette 10 Rob. 438 1845 0 Contracts, reconventional demand Louisiana
McCargo v. New Orleans Insurance 10 Rob. 202 1845 0 Insurance policy, emancipation, murder Louisiana
Lockett v. Merchants Insurance 10 Rob. 339 1845 0 Insurance policy, proceeds, liability Louisiana
Gustine v. Union Bank 10 Rob. 412 1845 0 Mortgages, promissory notes, property, reconventional demand, suspensive condition, contracts, obligations, suretyship, privileges Louisiana
Farmer v. Fisk 9 Rob. 351 1844 0 Redhibition, warranty, sales, recission, damages, runaway enslaved person, quanti minoris Louisiana
Lallande v. Lee 9 Rob. 514 1845 0 Property, sales, promissory notes, mortgages, recission, damages, subrogation Louisiana
Calderwood v. Trent 9 Rob. 227 1844 0 Property, seizure, sales, privileges, fraud, injunction Louisiana
Offutt v. Edwards 9 Rob. 90 1844 0 Sales, property, promissory notes, mortgages, seizure, bonds, damages Louisiana
Adams ex rel. United States v. Avery 9 Rob. 431 1845 0 Promissory notes, seizure, sales, property, mortgages, privileges Louisiana
Smith v. Delahoussaye 9 Rob. 50 1844 0 Privileges, eviction, damages, privileges Louisiana
Jenkins v. Felton 9 Rob. 200 1844 0 Property, seizure, sales, mortgages, subrogation, fraud Louisiana
Boyers v. Vinson 9 Rob. 518 1845 0 Sales, donations, simulation, fraud, successions, prescription Louisiana
Davis v. Thompson 9 Rob. 198 1844 0 Successions, property, community property Louisiana
Marsh v. Briant 9 Rob. 7 1844 0 Injunction, seizure, taxes, property Louisiana
Fazende v. Hagan 9 Rob. 306 1844 0 Redhibition, sales, runaway enslaved person, recission Louisiana
Spencer v. Conrad 9 Rob. 78 1844 0 Successions, community property, contracts, promissory notes, sales, prescription Louisiana
Amis v. Bank of Louisiana 9 Rob. 348 1844 0 Property, sales, contracts, promissory notes, recission, fraud, personal jurisidiction Louisiana
Layson v. Rowan 7 La. 1 1844 0 Deeds, privileges, property, conflict of laws, promissory notes, mortgages Louisiana
Succession of Woodruff 14 La. Ann. 295 1859 0 Wills, manumission Louisiana