Clayton’s Notebook, 11.[*] GAVINSTON v. FREEMAN. Supreme Court of Delaware, Kent County. March, 1796. [*] This case is also reported in Wilson’s Red Book, 121, where the plaintiff’s name is spelled “Gravinston.” This case came on for argument on a demurrer to evidence. It was an action of assumpsit by the plaintiff, assignee, vs. defendant, […]
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SMITH v. HORSEY, 2 Del. Cas. 9 (1793)
Read’s Notebook, 11.[*] MARY SMITH v. SARAH HORSEY, now ROBINSON. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware. November, 1793. [*] This case is also reported in Wilson’s Red Book, 10. 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 […]
SMITH v. HORSEY, 2 Del. Cas. 9 (1793)
Read’s Notebook, 11.[*] MARY SMITH v. SARAH HORSEY, now ROBINSON. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware. November, 1793. [*] This case is also reported in Wilson’s Red Book, 10. 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 […]
STATE v. BENDER, 1 Del. Cas. 16 (1793)
Wilson’s Red Book, 11.[†] STATE v. VALENTINE BENDER. Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware, Dover County. December, 1793. [†] This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 34; Miller’s Notebook, 33; Clayton’s Notebook, 2; Read’s Notebook, 12. Page 17 At the trial the Negro (who was agreed to have been freed in Maryland 8 years […]