Myra Clark Gaines

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This file appears in: The Myra Clark Gaines Cases: “The Most Remarkable in the Records of its Courts.”

Myra Clark Gaines in her 50s. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This file appears in: The Myra Clark Gaines Cases: “The Most Remarkable in the Records of its Courts.”

The Myra Clark Gaines Cases: “The Most Remarkable in the Records of its Courts.”

By Mary Ann Wegmann, The Law Library of Louisiana & University of New Orleans History Department

While located in the Cabildo, the Louisiana Supreme Court decided several cases in the Myra Clark Gaines litigation. Lasting for more than fifty years, the Myra Clark Gaines litigation is known as the longest case in US history, beginning around…