Hilles’ Notebook, 1 MANLOVE TARRANT v. JAMES STEVENS. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware. May, 1770. On argument, defendant’s counsel gave up two first pleas, and the nonage seemed to be admitted by plaintiff’s counsel, who moved to be admitted to prove the defendant’s having agreed at several times since he came of age to […]
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IN RE McCOWIN’S ESTATE, 1 Del. Cas. LXII (1771)
Hilles’ Notebook, 3 MATTER OF JOHN McCOWIN’S ESTATE. Orphans’ Court of Delaware. February, 1771. In passing the administration account of John McCowin, the Court’s opinion was asked whether the account of a physician for his attendance and medicine exhibited to a man in his last illness should not be deemed a debt of the highest […]
BROWN v. TRUIT, 1 Del. Cas. LXV (1787)
Hilles’ Notebook, 39 BROWN v. TRUIT, Executor. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. February, 1787. JOHN WILTBANK, ESQ., CHIEF JUSTICE. On motion by defendant to set aside a fieri facias, a writ of error being brought by defendant in Supreme Court. But no bail to the writ was put in. Case. Brown commenced […]
PENN v. SHEE, 1 Del. Cas. LXIV (1770)
Hilles’ Notebook, 8 HON. JOHN PENN, Governor, v. SHEE and WIFE, Administrators. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware. February, 1770. About twenty-three years ago Thomas Parke entered into bond with Catharine Philips to the then Governor for her faithful discharging her executorship to William Philips and making up with his estate etc. Action brought in […]
IN RE CAHOON, 1 Del. Cas. LXII (1771)
Hilles’ Notebook, 4 THOMAS CAHOON, Guardian of William Arthurs. Orphans’ Court of Delaware. March 13, 1771. Page LXIII On citation for wasting his ward’s estate, the defendant’s attorney denied the Court had cognizance of the complaint, alleging an Orphans’ Court might displace a guardian for ill-treatment to his ward, but not for injuring his estate; […]