Clayton’s Notebook, 2.[*] STATE v. VALENTINE BENDER. Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware, Kent County. December, 1793. [*] This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 34; Bead’s Notebook, 12; Miller’s Notebook, 33; Wilson’s Red Book, 11. Page 479 The defendant, a white man, was indicted for an assault and battery committed on Phillis Miller, […]
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THE BENCH, 1 Del. Cas. 646 (1793)
Miller’s Notebook, 2 [THE BENCH.] Supreme Court of Delaware. October, 1793, May Term, 1796. October, 1793, Justices of the Supreme Court George Read, Chief Justice. John Clayton, Second Justice. Peter Robinson, Third Justice. Justices of the Court of Common Pleas. Richard Bassett, Chief Justice. Thomas McDonough, Second Justice. Daniel Rodney, Third Justice. May Term, 1796. […]
NEWBOLD’S LESSEE v. STOCKLEY, 2 Del. Cas. 3 (1793)
Read’s Notebook, 2.[†] NEWBOLD’S LESSEE v. STOCKLEY. Supreme Court of Delaware. November 2, 1793. [†] This case also reported in Wilson’s Red Book, 5. Page 4 Defendant’s counsel moved for a new struck jury, which plaintiff’s counsel insisted should be at defendant’s expense of striking, as had been done in Conwell v. Conwell. But this […]
LINGO’S LESSEE v. RIGUA, 1 Del. Cas. 6 (1792)
Wilson’s Red Book, 2 LINGO’S LESSEE v. RIGUA, Jr. Supreme Court of Delaware. July and August, 1792. KILLEN, C. J., JONES and FINNEY, JJ., on three arguments ruled: First, that a demand of lease, entry, and ouster to be confessed after the plaintiff’s title was almost gone through, and the jury was once dismissed and […]
STATE v. HUGHS, 1 Del. Cas. 7 (1793)
Wilson’s Red Book, 2 STATE v. PHILIP HUGHS. Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware. February 7, 1793. Thomas Marin, the prosecutor offered as a witness. Objected that he might have restitution, that he was interested, and that the practice had been otherwise; and cited Gilb.Evid. 135, 1 Salk. 283, 2 Hawk.P.C. 433, [2] Str. 728, […]