Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Denton v. Merrill 50 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 224 1887 1 New York
Shepherd v. Brown 30 W. Va. 13 1887 1 West Virginia
Seymour v. Purnell 23 Fla. 232 1887 1 Florida
Findlay v. Trigg's Adm'r 83 Va. 539 1887 1 Virginia
Pauly v. Pauly 69 Wis. 419 1887 1 Wisconsin
Cole v. American Baptist Home Mission Society 64 N.H. 445 1887 1 New Hampshire
United States ex rel. White v. Bayard 16 D.C. 428 1887 1 District of Columbia
Lockwood's Appeal from Probate 55 Conn. 157 1887 1 Connecticut
Wood v. Vernon 13 Del. 48 1887 1 Delaware
Gibson v. Zeibig 24 Mo. App. 65 1887 1 Missouri
Mason v. Ammon 117 Pa. 127 1887 1 Pennsylvania
Hanney v. Commonwealth 116 Pa. 322 1887 1 Pennsylvania
Dorbert v. State 68 Md. 209 1887 1 Maryland
State v. Estoup 39 La. Ann. 219 1887 1 Louisiana
Blatchford v. Boyden 122 Ill. 657 1887 1 Illinois
People v. Leaton 121 Ill. 666 1887 1 Illinois
In re the Executors & Legatees of & under the last Will & Testament of McPherson 104 N.Y. 306 1887 1 New York
Brooks v. Eskins 24 Mo. App. 296 1887 1 Missouri
Robertson v. Mowell 66 Md. 530 1887 1 Maryland
Bush v. Stanley 122 Ill. 406 1887 1 Illinois