Appeals to the Privy Council
Report No. JAM_1748_06

Barclay v Rigby

Barclay v Penny

Jamaica 

 

Case Name Long

James Barclay and John Knight v Frances Rigby and Robert Penny, as Attorney General

Case Name Long

James Barclay v Robert Penny, as Attorney General

 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.4 [92] p.69–70 (13 Oct. 1748 – 14 April 1752)

 
PC Register Citation  

George II v.12 (1 May 1748 – 29 March 1750) p.99: PC 2/101/99

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PC Register Citation  

George II v.13 (1 May 1750 – 30 March 1752) p.64, 535: PC 2/102/64, 535

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PC Register Citation  

George II v.14 (1 April 1752 – 31 Dec. 1753) p.6–12, 30–31: PC 2/103/6–12, 30–31

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Colonial Courts

Supreme Court – Nov.1745 (Barclay v Penny)

Court of Errors – 4 Aug. 1747 (Barclay v Penny)

Chancery – 23 Nov. 1747 (Barclay v Rigby)

Participants

Barclay, James, merchant, of Kingston, Jamaica, appellant (administrator of Samuel Walter)

Bowes, Joshua

Clarke, John (?husband of Susannah)

Clarke, Maynard

Clarke, Susannah (?wife of John)

Harris, Nicholas

Knight, James, esquire, deceased (father of John, attorney for Samuel Walter)

Knight, John, esquire, appellant (son and heir of James)

Mellin, Francis

Morse, Mr. [?John]

Penny, Robert, esquire, attorney general for Jamaica, respondent

Pestall, Alger (attorney for Samuel Walter)

Poole, Robert (attorney for Samuel Walter)

Rigby, Frances, spinster, respondent (executrix of James)

Rigby, James, esquire, deceased

Walter, Samuel, deceased

Description

Concerning debt and land.

Disposition

Judgments reversed and further proceedings ordered.

Notes

The respondent’s printed case lists both cases and describes Barclay v Penny as being “in error” (presumably analogous to a common-law writ of error) and Barclay and Knight v Rigby and Penny as being an appeal from an order of the Chancery Court [of Jamaica].

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

Table of Cases (Barclay v Rex)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s
case

Case of the appellant (James Barclay and John Knight v Frances Rigby)

Counsel

A. Hume-Campbell

 
Library

Law Library of Congress: (Sir George Lee Collection) (Printed date on dorse 1752; 17 March added by hand; no manuscript notes)

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Respondent’s
case

Case of the respondent (James Barclay v Robert Penny; James Barclay and John Knight v Frances Rigby and his Majesty’s Attorney-General)

Counsel

D. Ryder; W. Murray

 
Library

Law Library of Congress: (Sir George Lee Collection) (Printed date on dorse 1752; 17 March added by hand; no manuscript notes)

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

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