Wilson’s Red Book, 98 ROBERT ELLIOTT, qui tam, v. DAVID RICHARDS. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware. April, 1796. Page 88 Narratio. Debt, £400, stating defendant, contrary to an Act [of] February 3, 1789 [2 Del. Laws 943], sold etc. four Negroes, naming them. Plea nil debet. Ridgely and Bayard for plaintiff. Peery and Wilson […]
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STATE v. ROGERS, 1 Del. Cas. 86 (1796)
Wilson’s Red Book, 98 STATE v. GEORGE ROGERS and ELIJAH SCOTT. Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware. April, 1796. The charge to jury by BASSETT, C. J.: Whenever one man touches another in an angry manner it is a battery. Every battery includes an assault, and there can be no battery without an assault. If […]
WRIGHT’S LESSEE v. CANNON, 1 Del. Cas. 368 (1795)
Bayard’s Notebook, 98.[*] WRIGHT’S LESSEE v. CANNON. High Court of Errors and Appeals of Delaware. August, 1795. [*] This case is also reported in Wilson’s Red Book, 240; Rodney’s Notes, Aug., 1796. Page 369 Present: KILLEN, Chancellor, READ, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, BASSETT, Chief Justice [of the] Common Pleas (he had not sat in […]
WRIGHT’S LESSEE v. CANNON, 1 Del. Cas. 368 (1795)
Bayard’s Notebook, 98.[*] WRIGHT’S LESSEE v. CANNON. High Court of Errors and Appeals of Delaware. August, 1795. [*] This case is also reported in Wilson’s Red Book, 240; Rodney’s Notes, Aug., 1796. Page 369 Present: KILLEN, Chancellor, READ, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, BASSETT, Chief Justice [of the] Common Pleas (he had not sat in […]
STATE v. SULLIVAN, 1 Del. Cas. 87 (1796)
Wilson’s Red Book, 98 STATE v. HENRY SULLIVAN. Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware. April 2, 1796. [CHIEF JUSTICE] BASSETT’S charge, “I am led to explain the law to you in consequence of questions that have been proposed to the witnesses etc. Whenever two men agree to go and fight, it is no justification.” Verdict […]