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Case Name Citation ▼ Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
State v. Nelson 3 La. Ann. 497 1848 0 Criminal law, confessions, evidence, murder Louisiana
Ex parte Louis 3 La. Ann. 467 1848 0 Wills, emancipation, property, damages, unpaid wages Louisiana
Coby v. Kock 3 La. Ann. 439 1848 0 Sales, emancipation, sequestration, emancipation Louisiana
State v. Lewis 3 La. Ann. 398 1848 0 Criminal law, muder, habeas corpus, statutory interpretation Louisiana
State v. Isaac 3 La. Ann. 359 1848 0 Murder, criminal law, jury challenge, double jeopardy, confessions Louisiana
Oates v. Caffin 3 La. Ann. 339 1848 0 Possessory action, adverse possession, runaway enslaved person, conflict of laws Louisiana
Macarty v. Mandeville 3 La. Ann. 239 1848 0 Donations, property, cohabitation, successions, mortgages, promissory notes Louisiana
Succession of Sinnott 3 La. Ann. 175 1848 0 Emancipation, wills, property, usufruct, sales, mortgages, legacies Louisiana
Kellar v. Fink 3 La. Ann. 17 1848 0 Sales, property, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Gaudet v. Gourdain 3 La. Ann. 136 1848 0 Freedom suit, contracts, conditional sale, contracts Louisiana
Taylor v. Rostrop 3 La. Ann. 100 1848 0 Hypothecary action, mortgages, sales, emancipation Louisiana
Flower v. Taliaferro 3 La. 88 1831 0 Sales, petitory action Louisiana
Harrison v. Faulk 3 La. 68 1831 0 Communiy property, damages, sales, sequestration, seizure, taxes, property Louisiana
Newson v. Adams 3 La. 231 1832 0 Community property, damages, successions, conflict of laws, contracts Louisiana
Durnford v. Clark's Estate 3 La. 199 1831 0 Hypothecary action, property, mortgages, sales, privileges, prescription, debts Louisiana
Burney's Heirs v. Lamothe 3 La. 195 1831 0 Sales, adverse possession, prescription, petitory action, community property, successions, debts, conflict of laws, property, damages Louisiana
Valsain v. Cloutier 3 La. 170 1831 0 Wills, debts, legitimacy, renunciation, property, successions, fraud, lesion, res judicara, filiation, prescription, capacity, emancipation Louisiana
Madry v. Young 3 La. 160 1831 0 Recordation, sales, parol evidence, conflict of laws, delivery, petitory action, contracts Louisiana
Bach v. Hall 3 La. 116 1831 0 Sales, delivery, possessory action, petitory action, parol evidence, property, contracts Louisiana
Donnell v. State 3 Ind. 480 1852 1 Indiana