NIVIN v. STATE, 2 Del. Cas. 281 (1811)

Ridgely’s Notebook I, 10[*] DAVID NIVIN, defendant below, v. STATE, plaintiff below, for the Use of JOHN FIELD et al. High Court of Errors and Appeals of Delaware, August, 1811. [*] This case is also reported in Clayton’s Notebook, 26. This was a writ of error directed to the Justices of the Court of Common […]

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SMITH v. HORSEY, 1 Del. Cas. 16 (1793)

Wilson’s Red Book, 10[*] MARY SMITH v. SARAH HORSEY, now Robinson. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware. November, 1793. [*] This case is also reported in Read’s Notebook, 11. Evidence that plaintiff’s father in a merry humor and drunk gave the negro in question to plaintiff when a little girl because she and another danced […]

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KENNOHAN v. COOKE, 1 Del. Cas. 486 (1795)

Clayton’s Notebook, 10 KENNOHAN and WIFE v. COOKE. Orphans’ Court of Delaware, Kent County. May, 1795. This was an appeal from the Register of Kent County on an administration which he had committed to Robert Cooke on the estate of Michael Cooke, deceased, who left his father, John Cooke, his brother, Robert Cooke, the respondent […]

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CALDWELL v. HODGSON’S ADMINISTRATOR, 1 Del. Cas. 651 (1793)

Miller’s Notebook, 10.[*] CALDWELL v. HODGSON’S ADMINISTRATOR. Supreme Court of Delaware, Kent County. October, 1793. [*] This case is also reported in Clayton’s Notebook, 1. This case came before the court on the return of the proceedings by a justice of the peace to a certiorari. Miller, for Caldwell, the appellee, upon a suggestion filed […]

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