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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Wade v. American Colonization Society 15 Miss. 663 1846 0 Will & trust Mississippi
Handy v. Sterling 1 La. Ann. 308 1846 0 Community property, successions, sales, mortgages, privileges, debts Louisiana
Erwin v. Lowry 1 La. Ann. 276 1846 0 Successions, administrators, mortgages, promissory notes, property, sales, intervenor, jurisdiction Louisiana
Foster v. Ferguson 1 La. Ann. 262 1846 0 Community property, conflict of laws, usufruct, successions, capacity, tutorship Louisiana
Copley v. Ross 1 La. Ann. 310 1846 0 Seizure, property, damages, slander, sales Louisiana
Beaumon v. Thomas 1 La. Ann. 284 1846 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, property, privileges, sequestration, pledges, sales, obligations, contracts Louisiana
Robinson v. State 1 Ga. 563 1846 0 Larceny Supreme Court of Georgia
Lee v. Lee 1 La. Ann. 318 1846 0 Sales, conflict of laws, intervenor, witness testimony, interrogatories, property Louisiana
Caller v. Vivian 8 Ala. 903 1846 0 Recovery for debt Alabama
Spurlock v. Mainer 1 La. Ann. 301 1846 0 Community property, mortgages, successions, sales, privileges, hypothecary action, fieri facias, contracts Louisiana
Frow v. Smith 10 Ala. 571 1846 0 Will & trust Alabama
Branch Bank at Mobile v. Taylor 10 Ala. 67 1846 0 Mortgage dispute Alabama
Carradine v. Collins 15 Miss. 428 1846 0 Gift of property dispute Mississippi
Copley v. Lambeth 1 La. Ann. 316 1846 0 Sales, bonds, suretyship, litigious rights Louisiana
Miller v. Andrus 1 La. Ann. 237 1846 0 Successions, donation inter vivos, property, obligations Louisiana
Grand Gulf Railroad & Banking v. Stanbrough 1 La. Ann. 261 1846 0 Promissory notes, consideration, property, contracts, conflict of laws Louisiana
Babcock v. Huntington 9 Ala. 869 1846 0 Trover Alabama
Mudd v. Turton 4 Gill 233 1846 0 Maryland
Petrie’s Executors v. Wright 14 Miss. 647 1846 0 Mortgage dispute Mississippi
Bissell v. Lindsay 9 Ala. 162 1846 0 Action against marshall for wrongful recovery of enslaved person Alabama