Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. ANT_1718_03

Eversden v Douglas

Antigua 

 

Case Name Long

Benjamin Eversden and John Wright v Henry Douglas, Nathaniel Crump, et al.

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.2 [1306] p.751 (21 Dec. 1718 – 28 March 1720)

 
  PC Register Citation

George I v.2 (2 March 1717 – 25 Aug. 1720) p.209, 216–217, 371, 399–400, 401–402: PC 2/86/209, 216–217, 371, 399–400, 401–402

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Governor and Council of the Leeward Islands as a Court of Errors – 14 July 1718

 
 

Chancery Court – 17 July 1719

 

Participants

Crump, Nathaniel, respondent (executor of John Martin)

 

Daniel, Richard

 

Douglas, Henry, provost marshal, respondent

 

Eversden, Benjamin, merchant, appellant

 

Martin, John, senior, deceased

 

Wright, John, appellant

 

Description

Appeal from a decision recovering a bond from Eversden and Wright as securities.

Disposition

Both judgments reversed, relieving appellants against the bond.

Notes

A typographical error in the APC lists the court date once as 1709.

 

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

Table of Cases (Eversden v Douglass)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

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

 

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