Articles Tagged: Wilson’s Red Book

Wilson’s Red Book, 231[*] STATE v. PRETTYMAN. Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware, Sussex County. April, 1799. [*] This case is also reported in Rodney’s Notes, April 27, 1799. A Mulatto (the person injured), whose mother is white, offered as a witness by defendant, and objected to by Ridgely. Bayard. By 2 Del. Laws 887, […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 199 JOSEPH CROCKET v. SIMON JOHNSON. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware. April, 1798. Debit sans breve. Narratio, cognovit actionem, and judgment; rule to show cause why judgment should not be opened upon affidavit that the bond was given in £70, and that consideration was only £50. Argument. Ridgely for defendant. Vining […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 154.[*] STATE, JOHN SHARP, Prosecutor, v. A. STANSBOROUGH. Supreme Court of Delaware. March, 1797. [*] This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 185. Page 130 Peery, Miller and White for plaintiff. Bayard, Ridgely and Wilson for defendant. Evidence. That John Sharp gave defendant a deed and peaceable actual possession. That John […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 318[*] WILLIAM ELLIGOOD v. JAMES ONEAL. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. November 27, 1800. [*] This case is also reported in Rodney’s Notes. This was an action for these three sets of words: “As damned a rogue as any in Sussex county,” “An harborer of thieves, and Negroes,” and […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 8[*] POLE’S LESSEE v. ROSS. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. November, 1793. [*] This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 26; Read’s Notebook, 9. Page 15 Defendant’s counsel, not prepared for trial, were about to deliver certiorari, but plaintiff’s counsel occupied the court with a motion for the […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 288 JEHU EVANS v. JOHN SMITH. High Court of Errors and Appeals of Delaware. August, 1800. Appeal from the decree of the Commissioners in Sussex in favor of the appellee. Ridgely, for appellant, offered a bond and other exhibits which were not read in evidence before the Commissioners. Wilson, for appellee, objected […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 282[*] CHAMBERS v. SMACK. Supreme Court of Delaware, Kent County. March, 1800. [*] This case is also reported in Clayton’s Notebook, 24. Ridgely for plaintiff. Vining and Rodney for defendant. This was an action on a promissory note, vulgarly called a wheat note, given by defendant to the plaintiff for the consideration […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 35 JESSE SAUNDER’S LESSEE v. ELIJAH CANNON. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware. November, 1794. McDONOUGH and RODNEY, Justices [sitting], the Chief Justice having been of counsel in this cause. Defendant’s counsel, Bayard, offered in evidence a deposition of a witness taken by defendant, [in] 1766 before William Elligood, a Justice of […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 162 WILLIAM McCAY’S LESSEE v. WILLIAM HINDS. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware. April 27, 1797. Peery and Wilson for plaintiff. Miller for defendant. Evidence. Plaintiff had a right to a moiety of 167 acres more or less, which was in fact 113 acres. He sold to Carlisle, from whom defendant claimed […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 352 LILLY CANNON v. JOSHUA POLK. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware. April 30, 1801. Hall and Ridgely for plaintiff. Bayard an Wilson for defendant. Plaintiff proved by John Rust that defendant had the Negro on hire in the lifetime of her late husband, that he was worth twenty per year, and […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 227[*] WAPLES, Surviving Partner of Waples and Lingo, v. PETER WAPLES. Supreme Court of Delaware, Sussex County. March, 1799. [*] This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 244. Plaintiff’s death suggested etc. Defendant offered as a discount his book, on which the articles were charged to S. Lingo, and proved that […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 234 NEGRO DICK v. BETSY GIBBINS and JOSIAH GIBBINS. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. April 30, 1799. Ridgely, Bayard and Wilson for petitioner Hall and Vining for defendants. Evidence that four or five years ago Joshua Gibbins, father of defendants, thought himself about to die and made a verbal […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 4.[*] SARAH COLLINS v. JOSHUA HALL. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware. November, 1793. [*] This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 8; Miller’s Notebook, 14. Page 9 Case. Defendant moved to put off the trial by making oath of the materiality of Isaac Cooper, Esquire, who was absent and had […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 262 GEORGE ADAMS v. SETH GRIFFETH, THOMAS LAWS and ROBERT BOYCE. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. November, 1799. Page 244 Peery and Horsey for plaintiff. Bayard, Hall, Ridgely, and Wilson for defendants. The report stated the several meetings of referees and their adjournments and the reasons of them. It […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 232 JOHN FISHER v. WILLIAM HUSBAND. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. April, 1799. Evidence that the fence was on the dividing line of Fisher and Rowland, under whom defendant justified. Bayard and Wilson for defendant. Hall, Vining and Ridgely for plaintiff. Defendant urged that there was a tenancy in […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 217[*] WOOLSEY WAPLES v. NATHANAEL WAPLES and EDWARD HALL. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. November 22, 1798. [*] This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 234; Rodney’s Notes, November 22, 1798. Wilson for plaintiff. Bayard and Ridgely for defendants. Evidence. That Burton Waples died about the 12th of […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 177[*] BURTON’S LESSEE v. WILLIAM PRETTYMAN. Supreme Court of Delaware, Sussex County. March 13, 1797. [*] For earlier litigation, see above Wilson’s Red Book, 58. Motion to quash execution, which had issued August 8, delivered [to] the sheriff and by him executed after the twelfth. Judgment was rendered in March, and writ […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 40 ELIJAH CANNON v. JOHN TIMMONS. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware. November, 1794. Bayard for plaintiff, although another cause was ready for trial and waiting, moved to bring on the trial of this cause and said yesterday he got an attachment for his witness, who is present. Peery for [defendant][1] said […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 25 STATE v. MORRIS. Supreme Court of Delaware. October, 1794. Upon a question of striking off this suit, the Court said “not to be brought forward” means “that if the suit is not concerned with in six months, it is considered as discontinued.” Page 28

Wilson’s Red Book, 273 GEORGE H. GRAY, Administrator of Sarah Collins, v. WILLIAM JORDAN HALL. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. April, 1800. Narratio stated defendant was guardian and accounted before the Orphans’ Court etc. Guardian account was passed February 5, 1791. Sarah was then a minor and, while such, married Elijah Collins, […]