Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Empire Gas & Fuel Co. v. Muegge 135 Tex. 520 1940 1 Texas
Himel v. Connely 197 So. 424 1940 1 Louisiana
Himel v. Connely 195 La. 769 1940 1 Louisiana
Hessmer v. Edenborn 196 La. 575 1940 1 Louisiana
Woods v. State 190 Miss. 28 1940 1 Mississippi
Early v. Burns 142 S.W.2d 260 1940 1 Texas
Smith ex rel. Smith v. Mears 218 N.C. 193 1940 1 North Carolina
Safe Deposit & Trust Co. of Baltimore v. Commissioner 42 B.T.A. 145 1940 1 United States
Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of United States v. Welch 239 Ala. 453 1940 1 Alabama
Crowell v. Brim 191 Ga. 288 1940 1 Georgia
Hodges v. Stewart 218 N.C. 290 1940 1 North Carolina
State v. Stephenson 218 N.C. 258 1940 1 North Carolina
Deckert v. Independence Shares Corp. 311 U.S. 282 1940 1 United States
Sanderson v. Ætna Life Insurance 218 N.C. 270 1940 1 North Carolina
Buxton v. Acadian Production Corp. 35 F. Supp. 543 1940 1 United States
In re Talbot Canning Corp. 35 F. Supp. 680 1940 1 United States
Wetherbee v. Lodwick Lumber Co. 194 La. 352 1940 1 Louisiana
Ex parte Patterson 141 S.W.2d 319 1940 1 Texas
Wetherbee v. Lodwick Lumber Co. 193 So. 671 1940 1 Louisiana
State v. Bohannon 31 Ohio Law Abs. 682 1940 1 Ohio