Appeals to the Privy Council
Report No. JAM_1779_02

Kemeys v Clark

Jamaica 

 

Case Name Long

John Gardner Kemeys, James Clitherow, Paul Feilde, and Joseph Banks v Dame Ann Clark, Richard Brissett, and Benjamin Lyon

 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.5 [369] p.472–473 (29 March 1779 – 13 March 1782)

 
PC Register Citation  

George III v.16 (Oct. 1778 – June 1779) p.378, 395: PC 2/123/378, 395

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PC Register Citation  

George III v.20 (Oct. 1781 – Sept. 1782) p.202–206, 229–230: PC 2/127/202–206, 229–230

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Colonial Courts

Chancery – 21 and 22 May 1778

Participants

Banks, Joseph, of Lincoln’s Inn, appellant

Brissett, Richard, respondent (executor of Simon Clark)

Brown, Henry

Clark, Dame Ann, respondent (executrix of Simon)

Clark, Sir Simon, deceased

Clitherow, James, of Boston House, Middlesex, appellant

Fielde, Paul, of Stanstead Bury, Herts., appellant

Harrison, Thomas

Kemeys, John Gardner, of Bertholey, Monmouthshire, appellant

Lyon, Benjamin, respondent (executor of Simon Clark)

Pinnock, James

Wallen, Matthew

Description

Not stated in the Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series.

Disposition

Order of 21 May affirmed and that of 22 May reversed.


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s
case

Case of the appellant (John Gardner Kemeys and James Clitherow, Paul Fielde, and Joseph Banks)

Counsel

L. Kenyon; John Mitford

 
Library

London Metropolitan Archives: (Kemeys Trust: Papers from Collection: Clitherow Family/Family Papers/Trusteeship and Executor Records) ACC/1360/681

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Respondent’s
case

Case of the respondent (Anne Clarke, Richard Brissett, and Benjamin Lyon)

Counsel

J. Mansfield; John Madocks; J. Dunning

 
Library

London Metropolitan Archives: (Kemeys Trust: Papers from Collection: Clitherow Family/Family Papers/Trusteeship and Executor Records) ACC/1360/681

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

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