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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Flint v. Cuny 7 La. 379 1834 0 Syndic, sales, recission, property, successions, prescription Louisiana
Patin v. Prejean 7 La. 301 1834 0 Successions, property, sales, seizure, sales, mortgages, community property, debts, fieri facias, contracts Louisiana
Simonds v. Byrne 9 La. Ann. 93 1854 0 Successions, emancipation, sales, parol evidence Louisiana
Mary v. Morris 7 La. 135 1834 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, wills, sales, damages, sequestration, conflict of laws, successions, property, manumission Louisiana
Loussade v. Hartman 16 La. 117 1840 0 Damages, murder, torts, obligations, trespass Louisiana
Dupre v. Uzee 6 La. Ann. 280 1851 0 Sales, property, donations, successions, simulation Louisiana
Williams v. Hagan 2 La. 122 1830 0 Recission, sales, conflict of laws, property, delivery, mortgages Louisiana
Hood v. M'Corkle 16 La. 240 1840 0 Murder, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Benoit v. Broussard 19 La. 387 1841 0 Successions, sales, agency, contracts, property Louisiana
Castellano v. Peillon 2 Mart. (n.s.) 466 1824 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, runaway enslaved person, warranty Louisiana
Rowley v. Rowley 19 La. 557 1841 0 Community property, property, divorce, partition, sales, mortgages Louisiana
Mahle v. Terry 16 La. 248 1840 0 Sales, promissory notes, seizure Louisiana
Gentile v. Plasencia 10 La. Ann. 203 1855 0 Wills, emancipation, nullity Louisiana
McGowan v. Laughlan 12 La. Ann. 242 1857 0 Theft of enslaved person, prescription Louisiana
Brown v. Compton 10 Mart. (o.s.) 425 1821 0 Fraud, runaway enslaved person, manumission, sales, emancipation, evidence Louisiana
Chevalier v. Whatley 12 La. Ann. 651 1857 0 Sale of enslaved person, consideration, capacity, fraud Louisiana
Crocker v. Watkins 4 Mart. (o.s.) 540 1816 0 Damages, sales, property, seizure, Louisiana
Rost v. Heirs of Doyal 15 La. Ann. 265 1860 0 Wills, testament freeing enslaved persons Louisiana
M'Guire v. Amelung 12 Mart. (o.s.) 649 1823 0 Property, sales, contracts, parol evidence, donations, fraud, injunction Louisiana
M'Neely v. M'Neely 1 Mart. (n.s.) 646 1823 0 Petitory action, donations, parol evidence, contracts Louisiana