Tobacco Cases 1800sCom v Colquehouns et al., 2 Hen & Munf 213; 12 Va
403 (April 1808) (business
practices case)
Thompson's Administrator v Thompson's Executor, 20
Va (6 Munf) 514 (4 March 1820) (inheritance
issues re tobacco farmer's widow)
Parsons
v Armor, 28 US 413; 7 L Ed 724 (ED La, Jan 1830) (bad debt
case)
Commonwealth
v Benjamin J. Harris (Virginia, 1830's) (murders by
tobacconist)
Prigg
v Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 41 US (16 Peters) 539; 10 L
Ed 1060 (1842) (pro-slavery
case)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts v
Thompson, 53 Mass (12 Metc) 231 (March 1847) (outdoor
smoking case; banned due to
foreseeability of fires)
Syers v Jonas, 2 Ex 111 (Mass, 1848) (pricing
case)
Dixon v Myers & Co, 48 Va (7 Grattan) 240 (Jan
1851) (title
to tobacco burned before delivery to buyer)
Marshal
Ableman v
Sherman M. Booth, 59 US 479; 15 L Ed 465 (9 May 1856)
(fugitive slave case accessory to
tobacco farmer activity; see commentary by Lewis Tappan, et
al., Proceedings of Convention [New York, 1855],
p 31.)
Dred Scott
v Sandford, 60 US 393; 15 L Ed 691 (1857) (aiding/abetting
tobacco farmer activity, by
C.
J. Roger Taney, on the
world's worst court)
Durden v McWilliams & Smith, 31 Ala 438 (1858) (husband-wife
tobacco dispute case)
Ableman
v Booth, 62 US (21 How) 506; 16 L Ed 169 (7 March 1859)
(fugitive slave case accessory to
tobacco farmer activity)
Williams v Jones 3 Hurlst & C 256; 159 Eng Rep
528; 13 ALR 989 (Crt of Exchequer, 11 June 1864) (fire
case)
Williams v Jones 3 Hurlst & C 602; 159 Eng Rep 668
(Exchequer Chamber, 7 Feb 1865). SCB: 3 Hurlst & C 256; 159 Eng Rep
528
Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial, 8 Am St Trials
25-494 (DC, 1865) (assassination
accessory to
tobacco farmer activity)
U.S. v Surratt, 27 Fed Cas 1367 (# 16,423) (May
1865) (smoker
crime case, re 14 April 1865 Lincoln assassination, accessory to
tobacco farmer activity)
Ex parte Mudd, 17 Fed Cas 954 (# 9,899) (Sep 1868) (smoker
crime case, re 14 April 1865 Lincoln assassination)
US v Surratt, 6 DC 306 (6 Nov 1868) (smoker
crime case, re 14 April 1865 Lincoln assassination)
The Cherokee
Tobacco, 78 US 616; 20 L Ed 227 (WD Ark, Dec 1870) (tax
exemption case)
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