Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. JAM_1737_00

Stout v Stout

Jamaica 

 

Case Name Long

Dorothy Stout and Mathias Philip v James Stout

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.3 [419] p.579 (29 Nov. 1737 – 27 Dec. 1739)

 
  PC Register Citation

George II v.5 (1 Oct. 1736 – 4 Sept. 1738) p.309: PC 2/94/309

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  PC Register Citation

George II v.6 (1 Oct. 1738 – 27 March 1740) p.422–424, 491: PC 2/95/422–424, 491

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Commander in Chief as Ordinary – 19 April and 2 May 1737

 
 

Chancery – 13 Oct. 1734

 

Participants

Perrin, William

 

Philip (preferred spelling is Philp), Mathias, appellant (executor of Henry Stout)

 

Stout, Alexander (brother of Henry, Martha, and James)

 

Stout, Dorothy, appellant (widow of Henry)

 

Stout, Henry, esquire, deceased (husband of Dorothy, brother of Alexander, James, and Martha)

 

Stout, James, respondent (brother of Henry, Alexander, and Martha)

 

Stout, Martha (sister of Henry, Alexander, and James)

 

Wilkinson, Jacob (executor of Henry Stout)

 

Description

Will/probate.

Disposition

Appeal sustained; Governor ordered to decree a probate.

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

Table of Cases (Stout v Stout)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s case

Case of the appellant (Dororthy Stout and Matthias Philp v James Stout)

Counsel

D. Ryder; W. Murray

 
Library

Law Library of Congress: (Sir George Lee Collection) (Printed date on dorse 1739; 23 November added by hand; includes manuscript notes.)

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Respondent’s case

Case of the respondent (Dorothy Stout and Matthias Philp v James Stout)

Counsel

John Andrew

 
Library

Law Library of Congress: (Sir George Lee Collection) (Printed date on dorse 1739; no manuscript notes.)

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

 

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