Appeals to the Privy Council
Report No. 05_1731_00

Bennet v Gray

Massachusetts 

 

Case Name Short

Bennet v Gray

 
Case Name Long

Joseph Bennet and Samuel Freeth and William Walker v Benjamin Gray

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation 

v.3 [233] p.315–316 – 8 April 1731 – entry 1

 
PC Register Citation 

George II v.2 (1 June 1729 – 16 June 1732) p.367: PC 2/91/367

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APC Citation 

v.3 [233] p.316 – 28 April 1734 – entry 2

 
PC Register Citation 

George II v.2 (1 June 1729 – 16 June 1732) p.375–376: PC 2/91/375–376

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APC Citation 

v.3 [233] p.316 – 11 May 1734 – entry 3

 
PC Register Citation 

George II v.2 (1 June 1729 – 16 June 1732) p.387: PC 2/91/387

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Colonial Courts

Inferior Court of Common Pleas – 4 April 1729 (see Notes below)

Supream Court of Judicature – Boston – second Tuesday of August 1728

Participants

Bennet, Joseph of Birmingham

Freeth, Samuel of Birmingham

Gold, William

Gray, Benjamin of Boston (terretenant of William Gold)

Walker, William, merchant, of Whitton Hall in Warwickshire

Description

Land in dispute (trespass and ejectment) “lying at the Southerly end of Boston known as William Golds farm,” according to the APC

Disposition

Not stated in Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

Notes

There is an error in the colonial court dates in the APC; the lower court decision is dated after its reversal. The Privy Council’s register at George II v.2 (1 June 1729 – 16 June 1732) p.375 corrects the date of the Inferior Court judgment to 4 April 1727 and calls the higher court the ‘Superior Court of Judicature’.

On the action of ‘trespass and ejectment’ involved here, see Additional Research.

References in Smith, Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations

Table of Cases (Bennett v Gray)


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Printed Cases

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Privy Council Documents in PC 1 at The National Archives at Kew

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