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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Waddil v. Thompson 7 La. Ann. 592 1852 0 Possessory action, successions, legal representatives Louisiana
Stackhouse v. Kendall 7 La. Ann. 670 1852 0 Redhibition, sales Louisiana
Stephenson v. Lee 6 La. Ann. 758 1851 0 Mortgages, sales, possessory action Louisiana
Bacon v. Leeds 6 La. Ann. 804 1851 0 Suretyship, runaway enslaved person, leases, redhibition Louisiana
Bach v. Abbott 6 La. Ann. 809 1851 0 Sales, mandates, mortgages, promissory notes, simulation Louisiana
Landry v. Marchais 6 La. Ann. 87 1851 0 Marital property, simulations, contracts, prescription Louisiana
Beebe v. Robbins 8 La. Ann. 470 1852 0 Property, privileges, sales, trusts, conversion Louisiana
Johnson v. Weld 8 La. Ann. 126 1853 0 Red judicata, property, donations Louisiana
Voorhies v. DeBlanc 12 La. Ann. 864 1857 0 Creditor's rights, property, inheritance, successions Louisiana
Daret v. Gray 12 La. Ann. 394 1857 0 Runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Succession of Bollinger 30 La. Ann. 193 1878 0 Louisiana
Lagrange v. Barre 11 Rob. 302 1845 0 Donation inter vivos, property, sales, prescription, wills Louisiana
Powell’s Distributees v. Powell’s Legatees 30 Ala. 697 1857 0 Will & trust Louisiana
Malady v. Malady 25 La. Ann. 448 1873 0 Louisiana
Saul v. His Creditors 5 Mart. (n.s.) 569 1827 0 Louisiana
Copley v. Sanford 2 La. Ann. 335 1847 0 Successions, privileges, property, sales, conflict of laws Louisiana
Andrus v. Chretien 3 La. 48 1831 0 Sales, debts, suretyship, community property, mortgages, recission, redhibition, successions, seizure, debts, parol evidence Louisiana
Benoit v. Benoit's Heirs 3 La. 223 1832 0 Successions, fraud, simulation, sales, consideration, property Louisiana
Newman v. Baer 50 La. Ann. 323 1897 0 Louisiana
Knox v. Thompson 12 La. Ann. 114 1857 0 Breach of contract, recovery of damages, specific performance Louisiana