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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
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
Knight v. Knight 12 La. Ann. 396 1857 0 Property, dispute over ownership of enslaved person Louisiana
Bair v. Abrams 12 La. Ann. 753 1857 0 Dispute over sale of enslaved person Louisiana
Miller v. Stewart 12 La. Ann. 170 1857 0 Employment, beating and murder of an enslaved person, negligence Louisiana
Wolf v. Wolf 12 La. Ann. 529 1857 0 Sales, properties, mortgages, privileges, community property, promissory notes, simulation, contracts, seizure Louisiana
Harrell v. Harrell 12 La. Ann. 549 1857 0 Partition, intestacy, marital property Louisiana
State v. King 12 La. Ann. 593 1857 0 Murder, excecution, retroactivity Louisiana