Wilson’s Red Book, 58[*] THOMAS BURTON’S LESSEE v. WILLIAM, ROBERT, JOSEPH and BENJAMIN PRETTYMAN. Supreme Court of Delaware, Sussex County. March 23, 1795. [*] This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 90. Ejectment for lands in Indian River Hundred. Miller and Bayard for plaintiff.[1] [1] The report of this case in Bayard’s Notebook, 90, […]
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CLAY’S ADM’RS v. VANBEBBER’S ADM’R, 1 Del. Cas. 347 (1794)
Bayard’s Notebook, 58 CLAY’S ADMINISTRATORS v. VANBEBBER’S ADMINISTRATOR. Supreme Court of Delaware, New Castle County. April, 1794. April Term, 1793. Defendant pleaded payment and discount. Plaintiffs replied non solvit and no such account. In this term, April 11, Levy and Read, counsel for the plaintiffs, obtained a “rule to show cause why the plaintiffs should […]
STATE v. CLARK, 1 Del. Cas. 549 (1818)
Clayton’s Notebook, 58 STATE v. JAMES CLARK. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Kent County. May 4, 1818. Indictment for an assault on R. Catlin. Catlin was one of the officers of a camp meeting at which Clark was behaving disorderly. Catlin interfered to prevent it, upon which Clark, moving a knife which he held […]
WHITE v. STAFFORD, 1 Del. Cas. 673 (1794)
Miller’s Notebook, 58 THOMAS WHITE, qui tam, v. CLEMENT STAFFORD. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. May, 1794. The plaintiff had brought this action for the recovery of £100, the penalty which is incurred by an Act of Assembly of this state in cases where Negroes are exported from this state to Maryland, […]