Clayton’s Notebook, 24 JONAS DAWSON’S CASE. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Kent County. December, 1797. Dawson prayed by his petition to be discharged under the insolvent law, but, upon being interrogated, it appeared that he had, to the great injury of his creditors, made a voluntary sacrifice of £375 (by releasing so much), which […]
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LOFTLAND’S LESSEE v. BLOXSUM, 1 Del. Cas. 657 (1793)
Miller’s Notebook, 24.[*] LOFTLAND’S LESSEE v. BLOXSUM. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. November, 1793. [*] This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 17, where the plaintiff’s lessor’s name is spelled “Lofland.” This was an ejectment for one hundred acres of land in the forest of Cedar Creek Hundred. In the trial […]
CHAMBERS v. SMACK, 1 Del. Cas. 503 (1800)
Clayton’s Notebook, 24.[*] CHAMBERS v. SMACK. Supreme Court of Delaware, Kent County. March, 1800. [*] This case is also reported in Wilson’s Red Book, 282. This was an action on a note, vulgarly called a wheat note, given by the defendant to plaintiff for forty-six bushels of wheat, November 27, 1794. The defendant pleaded payment […]