Articles Tagged: Wilson’s Red Book

Wilson’s Red Book, 200 GEORGE ADAMS v. SETH GRIFFITH, THOMAS LAWS and ROBERT ROYCE. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware. April, 1798. Plaintiff’s counsel on May 4, 1798, went on with his objections to the report, and was stating facts relative to the bringing the business on before the referees. Defendants’ counsel objected to such […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 236 BURTON ROBINSON v. ANTHONY INGRAM. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. April 30, 1799. Bayard for plaintiff moved a continuance of the cause for non-attendance of surveyor who laid down pretensions; the warrant directed to him, and which has been returned with his plots, was a sufficient warning to […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 160.[*] WILLIAM HARRISON, qui tam, v. ADAM HUNTER. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. April 28, 1797. [*] This case is also reported in Rodney’s Notes, May, 1797. Peery, Wilson for defendant. Miller and Bayard for plaintiff. Reasons in arrest of judgment, that the narratio says “without permit etc. from […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 267 SETH GRIFFETH v. JOHN and WILLIAM ADAMS. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. November 15, 1799. Seth Griffeth, Esquire, assignee of Nancy Adams’ right in her father George Adams’ real estate, petitioned for a division of his intestate lands. Page 248 PER CURIAM. BOOTH, C. J. AS a year […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 179 STATE v. NEGRO DAVID, a Freeman. Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware, Sussex County. November 17, 1797. Evidence that the fish were found buried near his well fifteen yards from defendant’s house; no evidence that he knew they were there. Attorney General in his conclusion observed that the fish were found […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 67 JOHN JONES, ESQUIRE, v. WILLIAM MASSEY. Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware. April, 1795. Page 64 Wilson and Bayard for plaintiff. Miller and Batson for defendant. After plaintiff had gone on to prove by testimony most of his charges, and the defendant had in his cross-examination asked of the witnesses what […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 184 DANIEL CANNON ADAMS’ LESSEE v. EZEKIEL SMITH. Supreme Court of Delaware, Sussex County. March, 1798. Ejectment for 44 acres of orphan’s due and three hundred of regulation. Wilson, Vining and Peery for plaintiff Ridgely and Miller for defendant. Defendant produced a land warrant granted to Paris Chipman May 20, 1776, from […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 67 STATE v. JOSEPH WAPLES. Court of Quarter Sessions of Delaware. April, 1795. Indictment, forcible detainer from Cornish, a mulatto, who had rented for one year of Surman, who was prosecutor and offered as a witness; objected to on account of his interest, and argued by Peery an Hall for defendant, and […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 163.[*] JOHN COLLINS’ LESSEE v. WILLIAM RIGUA. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. May 3, 1797. [*] This case is also reported in Rodney’s Notes, May 2, 1797. Page 142 Peery and Wilson for plaintiff. Bayard and Ridgely for defendant. Evidence. Plaintiff’s grandfather devised the lands in dispute to plaintiff’s […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 12[*] HARVEY v. HARVEY. Circuit Court of Delaware, Dover County. October 27, 1793. [*] This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 45; Read’s Notebook, 14. Before PATTERSON, one of the judges of the Supreme Court,. and BEDFORD, District Judge. The parties to this suit had, under a rule of court, referred […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 169 BRITOL v. E. DICKERSON’S ADMINISTRATORS. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. May 5, 1797. Page 149 Ridgely for plaintiff. Wilson and Peery for defendant. Proof. In 1792 E. Dickerson sent the plaintiff to work swamp near Norfolk at the Negro’s request. The Negro had then been mortgaged only to […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 214 WILLIAM RICKARDS’ LESSEE v. ELIAS RICKARDS. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. November, 1798. In the trial of this ejectment, defendant’s counsel offered in evidence the former proceedings in an ejectment between the same parties for the same lands and verdict for defendant, and also the plot of pretensions […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 363 NEGRO DAVE et al. v. ANN HOUSTON. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware. April, 1801. Plaintiffs offered among other evidence two promissory notes given by Negro Dave to Jesse Griffeth for balances of accounts due from him to Ann Houston, but no act of hers appeared on them. Jesse Griffeth had […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 201 MESSICK CARPENTAR’S LESSEE v. REUBEN RATCLIFF. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware. April 28, 1798. Called for trial; when Ridgely moved to amend the declaration (which had a blank for the name of the land and then these words, “adjoining Abram Ingrain’s survey”) by making the declaration, which was for any […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 101[*] THOMAS LUDENHAM v. DAVID RICHARDS, Executor. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware. April, 1796. [*] This case is also reported in Bayard’s Notebook, 227, where it is dated 1798 and follows in order the dates of the cases in his notebook, but the account of the case in Wilson appears among […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 347 SARAH KING v. MARY FERGUS. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware. April, 1801. Page 304 Vining and Rodney for plaintiff. Cooper an Wilson for defendant. Defendant offered a receipt for fifteen pounds paid in 1791 by defendant’s late husband, James Fergus, to Stephen Redden, constable, being the money for which the […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 137 GEORGE ADAMS v. WILLIAM WILLIAMS et al. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware. November, 1796. Miller for plaintiff. Wilson for defendant. Plaintiff showed the patent of “Friend’s Denial,” proved possession, and had his pretensions laid down, and exhibited the trespass Page 112 thereon to the jury. Defendants acknowledge the trespass at […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 63 ZEPHEMIAH POLE’S[1] LESSEE v. EDWARD MINNER and BETTY THORN. Supreme Court of Delaware, Sussex County. March, 1795. [1] Note that in the opinion by Chief Justice Read, below, Zephemiah Polk’s name is spelled, “Zephemiah Pollock.” Page 60 Rule to show [cause] for a new trial came on to be argued. The […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 255 ADONIJAH STANBOROUGH v. JOHN LYND. Supreme Court of Delaware, Sussex County. October 11, 1799. Defendant had been arrested by the subsheriff but, being an agent for a house in Philadelphia and not resident here, could not give bail. As an indemnification to the sheriff [the defendant] gave him an order on […]

Wilson’s Red Book, 267 NEGRO DRAPER v. THOMAS FREENY. Court of Common Pleas of Delaware, Sussex County. November 17, 1799. Bayard and Ridgely for Draper. Vining an Hall for defendant. Defendant’s counsel entered a disclaimer for defendant. Plaintiff’s counsel said they could not prevent the disclaimer but moved for judgment as in the Act of […]