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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Aubert v. Aubert 6 La. Ann. 104 1851 0 Wills, capacity, parol evidence, form requirements Louisiana
Executors of Haggerty v. Powell 6 La. Ann. 533 1851 0 Sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Lombard v. Jacobs 6 La. Ann. 396 1851 0 Sales, redhibition Louisiana
Dashiell v. Lesassier 15 La. 101 1840 0 Seizure, sales, property, mortgages, privileges, injunction Louisiana
Rhodes v. Hooper 6 La. Ann. 355 1851 0 Wills, property, sales, mortgages Louisiana
Badillo v. Tio 6 La. Ann. 129 1851 0 Sales, emancipation, property, successions, legitimacy, alimony Louisiana
Murphy v. Mutual Benefit Life & Fire Insurance 6 La. Ann. 518 1851 0 Life insurance Louisiana
Bowles v. His Creditors 6 La. Ann. 679 1851 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, subrogation, privileges, sales Louisiana
Succession of Connolly 6 La. Ann. 795 1851 0 Successions, promissory notes, property Louisiana
Leigh v. Meurice 6 La. Ann. 476 1851 0 Conversion, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Audige v. Gaillard 8 La. Ann. 71 1853 0 Trespass, murder, negligence Louisiana
Heirs of Trahan v. Trahan 8 La. Ann. 455 1853 0 Emancipation, marital property, wills Louisiana
Byrne v. Anderson 8 La. Ann. 139 1853 0 Property, judicial seizure, debts Louisiana
O'Neal v. Oates 8 La. Ann. 78 1853 0 Property, wills Louisiana
Brown v. Smith 8 La. Ann. 59 1853 0 Emancipation Louisiana
Rountree v. Brilliant Steamboat Co. 8 La. Ann. 289 1853 0 Property, death of enslaved person, torts Louisiana
Rochel v. Berwick 12 La. Ann. 847 1857 0 Probate, promissory notes Louisiana
Johnson v. Bloodworth 12 La. Ann. 699 1857 0 Mortgages, unrecorded acts, vendor's privileges Louisiana
Templet v. Baker 12 La. Ann. 658 1856 0 Dispute over ownership of enslaved person, Runaway enslaved person, redhibition Louisiana
A. Montan & Bros. v. Whitley 12 La. Ann. 175 1857 0 Redhibition, recission of slave of enslaved family Louisiana