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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Copelle v. Dalton 4 Mart. (n.s.) 123 1826 0 Successions, property, sales Louisiana
Ferrer v. Bofil 11 Mart. (o.s.) 234 1822 0 Witness testimony, credibility, evidence, capacity,wills, successions, contracts, property, fraud, partnerships Louisiana
Moosa v. Allain 4 Mart. (n.s.) 99 1825 0 Emancipation, freedom suit, sales, wills, recission Louisiana
Doubrere v. Grillier's Syndic 2 Mart. (n.s.) 171 1824 0 Freedom suit, property, sales, emancipation, sequestration, suretyship Louisiana
Hewes v. Barron 7 Mart. (n.s.) 134 1828 0 Contracts, sales, recission, redhibition Louisiana
M'Donough v. Tregre 7 Mart. (n.s.) 68 1828 0 Intervenor, community property, property, sales, mortgages, privileges Louisiana
Delery v. Mornet 11 Mart. (o.s.) 4 1822 0 Criminal law, dram shop law, damages, evidence, torts, property Louisiana
Hamilton v. Hamilton 6 Mart. (n.s.) 143 1827 0 Partition, successions, capacity, wills, property, mortgages, sales, collation Louisiana
Metayer v. Metayer 6 Mart. (o.s.) 16 1819 0 Emancipation, freedom suit, false imprisonment, damages, evidence, prescription, conflict of laws, property Louisiana
Reynaud v. Guillotte 1 Mart. (n.s.) 227 1823 0 Sales, redhibition, recission, prescription, witness testimony Louisiana
Gardiner v. Thibodeau 14 La. Ann. 732 1859 0 Recovery of murder of enslaved person Louisiana
Arbuckle v. Bouny 5 La. 699 1850 0 Sales, freedom suit, damages Louisiana
Broussard v. Broussard 11 Rob. 445 1845 0 Community property, successions, fieri facias Louisiana
Ingham v. Thomas 6 La. 82 1833 0 Debts, privileges, mortgages, recordation, syndic Louisiana
Poydras v. Taylor 18 La. 12 1841 0 Property, successions, obligations, contracts, wills, sales Louisiana
Guerin v. Bagneries 13 La. 14 1839 0 Successions, sequestration, sales, seizure, recordation, wills, property Louisiana
Slatter v. Holton 19 La. 39 1841 0 Sequestration, privileges, conversion Louisiana
Anderson's Executors v. Anderson's Heirs 10 La. 29 1836 0 Successions, property, privileges, wills, seizin Louisiana
Ford v. Simmons 13 La. Ann. 397 1858 0 Recovery of damages for murdered enslaved person Louisiana
Andry v. Foy 7 Mart. (o.s.) 33 1819 0 Redhibition, recission, sales, warranty, runaway enslaved person, evidence Louisiana