Appeals to the Privy Council
Report No. BAR_1730_00

Andrews v Le Gay

Andrews v Young

Andrews v Moseley

Barbados 

 

Case Name Long

William Andrews, Samuel Osborn, Thomas Stokes, and Richard Morris v Isaac Le Gay and John Wood

Case Name Long

William Andrews, Samuel Osborn, and Thomas Stokes v Joseph Young and James Caswell (now replaced by John Ashley), attorneys for Robert and Sarah Hales

Case Name Long

William Andrews, Samuel Osborn, and Thomas Stokes v Richard Moseley and John Wood

 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.3 [225] p.307–308 (12 Nov. 1730 – 8 April 1731)

 
PC Register Citation  

George II v.2 (1 June 1729 – 16 June 1732) p.285–286, 325, 335, 344, 345–350, 364: PC 2/91/285–286, 325, 335, 344, 345–350, 364

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Colonial Courts

Court of Common Pleas – 12 Sept. 1729 (Andrews v Young)

Court of Common Pleas – 15 Sept. 1729 (Andrews v Le Gay)

Court of Common Pleas – 2 Feb. 1730 (Andrews v Moseley)

Governor and Council as a Court of Errors – 14 April 1730 (Andrews v Le Gay) (Andrews v Young)

Court of Errors – 1 Sept. 1730 (Andrews v Moseley)

Participants

Andrews, George (husband of Lucretia, father of Sarah [now Sarah Hales] and Wardall)

Andrews (née Wardall), Lucretia (wife of George, daughter of Thomas Wardall, mother of Sarah [now Sarah Hales] and Wardall)

Andrews, Sarah – see Hales, Sarah

Andrews, Wardall (son of George and Lucretia, cousin of William [1], father of William [2])

Andrews, William (1), gentleman, of Worcester, appellant (cousin of Wardall)

Andrews, William (2), infant, deceased (son of Wardall)

Ashley, John, esquire, respondent (attorney for Robert and Sarah Hales)

Caswell, James, merchant, respondent

Hales, Robert, esquire (husband of Sarah)

Hales (née Andrews), Sarah (wife of Robert, daughter of George and Lucretia Andrews)

Le Gay, Isaac, gentleman, respondent

Morris, Richard, gentleman

Moseley, Richard, gentleman, respondent

Osborn, Samuel, appellant (attorney for William Andrews [1])

Stokes, Thomas, appellant (attorney for William Andrews [1])

Wardall, Lucretia – see Andrews, Lucretia

Wardall, Thomas, deceased

Wood, John, gentleman, respondent

Young, Joseph, esquire, respondent (attorney for Robert and Sarah Hales)

Description

Land and property disputes.

Disposition

The three appeals are dismissed.

Notes

The case below is described in the APC as arising “on a declaration in ejectment filed in the name of Morris on the demise of Andrews by his attorneys against Isaac Le Gay, gent., casual ejector and John Wood tertenant . . . .”

Smith (p.464) notes this case as one of the rare colonial appeals to be cited at Westminster. See examples cited in the Documentation section.

The appellants’ and respondents’ printed cases are summarized, with an additional footnote about the plantation, in Caribbeana: miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies, ed. Vere Langford Oliver (London: Mitchell, Hughes, and Clarke, 1909–1919), 6:64–65 (view).

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

Table of Cases (Morris v Wood; Morris v Le Gay)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s
case

Case of the appellant (Richard Morris ex dem. William Andrews v Isaac LeGay and John Wood)

Counsel

Not signed

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36216 f.24r–25v (Printed/manuscript date on dorse 18 March 1730. Other manuscript notes and underlining)

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Respondent’s
case

Case of the respondent (Richard Morris ex dem. William Andrews v Isaac LeGay and John Wood)

Counsel

N. Fazakerley; D. Ryder

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36216 f.26r–27v (Printed date on dorse 1730. Manuscript notes on dorse only)

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

Not found

 

Other Documents

Other DocumentsFor the conciliar arguments in Morris v Le Gay, Smith refers readers to a document in the Wedderburn papers at Lincoln’s Inn Library. We are grateful to the Librarian of Lincoln’s Inn Library for providing us with the images that we display here. They are reproduced with permission of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn. 
Library Ames Foundation: (33 pages) (Source: Lincoln’s Inn Library, Wedderburn papers, MS Misc 378, 57-89 [reversing volume])

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Other DocumentsSee Colson v Colson, referencing “Morris versus Wood, at the Cockpit, a plantation cause . . . held to be an estate tail by Lord Chief Justice Raymond and Eyres.” 2 Atk. 247, 249, 26 Eng. Rep. 553, 554 (Ch. 1741). 
Library Ames Foundation: (4 pages) (Source: HeinOnline [available by subscription])

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Other DocumentsSee also Doe ex dem. Long v Laming discussing “Morris, on the demise of William Andrews and Isaac Le Gay and John Wood (holden to be an estate tail in Lucretia).” 2 Burr. 1100, 1102–1103, 97 Eng. Rep. 731, 732–733 (KB 1760). 
Library Ames Foundation: (10 pages) (Source: HeinOnline [available by subscription])

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Other DocumentsA fuller discussion of the appeal (styled as Richard Morris Appellant v J. Ward and Others Respondents, from Barbados) by Lord Kenyon, based on notes of the case by Mr. Filmer, can be found in Alpass v Watkins, where the Privy Council result is described as “Lucretia took an estate tail.” 8 T.R. 516, 518–519, 101 Eng. Rep. 1521, 1522–1523 (KB 1800). 
Library Ames Foundation: (3 pages) (Source: HeinOnline [available by subscription])

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