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| Appeals to the Privy Council from the Caribbean and Canadian Colonies  | 
      
| Report No. JAM_1752_03 | 
               
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            Jamaica | 
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 John Spooner (revived by Charles Spooner) v John Cossley, Judith Burrows, and Cossley Hall  |             
            
Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series  | 
            
            
| APC Citation | v.4 [169] p.157–158 (23 Jan. 1752 – 1 April 1758)  | 
 		 
| PC Register Citation | George II v.13 (1 May 1750 – 30 March 1752) p.468: PC 2/102/468  | 
         
| PC Register Citation | George II v.16 (1 Jan. 1756 – 31 Dec. 1757) p.158, 259: PC 2/105/158, 259  | 
         
| PC Register Citation | George II v.17 (1 Jan. 1758 – 21 May 1759) p.38, 47, 49–53, 93: PC 2/106/38, 47, 49–53, 93  | 
         
Colonial Courts  | 
            
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 High Court of Chancery in England – undated  | 
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 Chancery – 22 Nov. 1755  | 
	
Participants  | 
              
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 Bourryau (Bourryan), Zachariah (son-in-law of John Spooner)  | 
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 Burrows (Burrowes), Judith, respondent (mother of John Cossley)  | 
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 Cossley, John, respondent (son of Judith Burrows, mortgagor of John Spooner)  | 
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 Cossley, Sarah  | 
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 Hall, [John] Cossley, respondent  | 
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 Hiscox, Joseph  | 
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 Holford, Mr. [Robert]  | 
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 Oliver, Richard  | 
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 Spooner, Charles, appellant (executor of John)  | 
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 Spooner, John, esquire, appellant, later deceased (father-in-law of Zachariah Bourryau, mortgagee of John Cossley)  | 
    
Description  | 
            
Land/mortgage.  | 
            
Disposition  | 
            
Appellant put in possession of the whole plantation.  | 
            
Notes  | 
            
The appellant’s and respondent’s printed cases are summarized 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), 6:154–155 (view).  | 
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DOCUMENTATION  |     
            
Printed Cases  | 
            
| Appellant’s case | Case of the appellant (John Spooner v John Cosley, John Cosley Hall, and Judith Burrow)  | 
            
| Counsel | R. Henley; E. Willes  | 
            
| Library | British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36217 f.206r–207v (Manuscript date on dorse 6 March 1758 with note. No other manuscript notes; some underlining.)  | 
| Library | Law Library of Congress: (Sir George Lee Collection) (Manuscript date on dorse 6 March 1758. Library markings on page 2; manuscript notes on page 3.)  | 
| Respondent’s case | Case of the respondent (John Spooner v John Cosley, Judith Burrowes, and Cosley Hall)  | 
            
| Counsel | C. Pratt; C. Yorke  | 
            
| Library | British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36217 f.208r–209v (Printed/manuscript date on dorse 6 March 1758. Manuscript notes and minor underlining.)  | 
| Library | Law Library of Congress: (Sir George Lee Collection) (Printed date on dorse 1758; 6 March added by hand; no manuscript notes.)  | 
Privy Council Documents in PC 1 at The National Archives at Kew  | 
            
Not found  |