Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▼ Jurisdiction
Osenton v. Elliott 73 W. Va. 519 1914 1 West Virginia
Musser v. Musser 281 Mo. 649 1920 1 Missouri
Fitzgerald v. Executor 155 Va. 112 1930 1 Virginia
State v. McKenna 188 Conn. 671 1982 1 Connecticut
Millwood v. State 164 Ga. App. 699 1982 1 Georgia
Town of Neola v. Reichart 131 Iowa 492 1906 1 Iowa
Kepler v. Larson 131 Iowa 438 1906 1 Iowa
Wentworth v. Wentworth 69 Me. 247 1879 1 Maine
Lyon v. Lyon 88 Me. 395 1896 1 Maine
Grows v. Maine Central Railroad 67 Me. 100 1877 1 Maine
People v. Davis 472 Mich. 156 2005 1 Michigan
Runt v. Herring 2 Misc. 105 1892 1 New York
Newsome v. Allen 86 Wash. 678 1915 1 Washington
Waynesburg Borough v. Ray 59 Pa. Super. 640 1915 1 Pennsylvania
Christiansen v. Christiansen 62 F. Supp. 341 1945 1 United States
Barton v. United States 75 F. Supp. 703 1948 1 United States
Becker v. Buder 79 F. Supp. 315 1948 1 United States
Moore v. Perkins 169 Va. 175 1937 1 Virginia
Beatty v. Union Trust & Deposit Co. 123 W. Va. 144 1941 1 West Virginia
Sands v. Security Trust Co. 143 W. Va. 522 1958 1 West Virginia