Articles Tagged: Miller’s Notebook

Miller’s Notebook, 14.[*] COLLINS v. HALL. Supreme Court of Delaware, Sussex County. October, 1793. [*] This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 8, and Wilson’s Red Book, 4. Page 653 The defendant by his counsel moved to postpone the cause upon the common affidavit of the absence of a material witness. This was objected […]

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. […]

Miller’s Notebook, 49 WALTER and WIFE v. EVANS and WIFE. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. May, 1794. This was an action on the case for money had and received by defendant’s testator, William Robinson, to the use of Leah Gray, the present wife of Thomas Walter. The plaintiff produced Seth Hudson as […]

Miller’s Notebook, 5 FREEMAN v. HALL. Supreme Court of Delaware, Kent County. October, 1793. The plaintiff, Samuel Freeman, had been regularly appointed collector of the public taxes for Little Creek Hundred in Kent County for the years 1779, 1780, 1781. He had given security according to law, had taken out the warrants of collection, and […]

Miller’s Notebook, 46.[*] TRAIN’S ADMINISTRATOR v. CONWELL’S EXECUTORS. Supreme Court of Delaware, Sussex County. November 6, 1793. [*] This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 4; Wilson’s Red Book, 8; Bead’s Notebook, 7. This was a scire facias to revive a judgment entered in the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Sussex, […]

Miller’s Notebook, 55 RICHARD LITTLE, for Use of KOLLOCK’S EXECUTRIX, v. JOSEPH DRAPER’S ADMINISTRATOR. Supreme Court of Delaware, Sussex County. May, 1794. In the trial of the cause in support of the first plea, the defendant produced the book of Joseph Draper, and offered to swear Charles Draper as a witness in the cause to […]

Miller’s Notebook, 33.[*] STATE v. BENDER. Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware, Kent County. December, 1793. [*] This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 34; Clayton’s Notebook, 2; Read’s Notebook, 12; Wilson’s Red Book, 11. The first witness produced on the part of the State was the prosecutrix, to prove the assault and battery […]

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 […]

Miller’s Notebook, 38 STATE v. BAYNARD. Court of Oyer and Terminer of Delaware, Kent County. April, 1794. Page 663 The defendant was indicted for the murder of Negro Richard, the slave of Nathan Herrington. In the trial of the cause, the first witness who was sworn on the part of the State was relating an […]

Miller’s Notebook, 3.[*] MORRISON v. WEIR. Supreme Court of Delaware, New Castle County. October, 1793. [*] This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 1. On motion to quash the proceedings on the return of a justice of the peace to a certiorari. The first and principal part of the record returned was the report […]

Miller’s Notebook, 10.[*] CALDWELL v. HODGSON’S ADMINISTRATOR. Supreme Court of Delaware, Kent County. October, 1793. [*] This case is also reported in Clayton’s Notebook, 1. This case came before the court on the return of the proceedings by a justice of the peace to a certiorari. Miller, for Caldwell, the appellee, upon a suggestion filed […]

Miller’s Notebook, 28 ELIJAH COLLINS’ LESSEE v. MARRINER and WIFE. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. October, 1793. [The report of this case is incomplete, and for that reason it has not been printed. Miller’s Notebook, 28-32.] Page 660

Miller’s Notebook, 62 ISAAC MOOR v. JOSHUA WRIGHT. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. May, 1794. [The report of this case is incomplete, and for that reason has not been printed. For a complete report of this case, see Wilson’s Red Book, 19.]

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, […]