Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. JAM_1759_06

Weatherby v Rait

Jamaica 

 

Case Name Long

John Weatherby, John Stephens, and Diederich Jacobi v Andrew Rait

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.4 [395] p.421 (15 May 1759 – 28 Jan. 1761)

 
  PC Register Citation

George II v.17 (1 Jan. 1758 – 21 May 1759) p.275, 513: PC 2/106/275, 513

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  PC Register Citation

George II v.18 (2 May 1759 – 10 July 1760) p.430: PC 2/107/430

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  PC Register Citation

George III v.1 (25 Oct. 1760 – 31 Dec. 1761) p.155, 178: PC 2/108/155, 178

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Chancery – 26 Nov. 1757

 

Participants

Jacobi, Diederich, appellant

 

Rait (Raitt), Andrew, respondent

 

Stephens, John, appellant

 

Weatherby, Joseph (aka John), appellant

 

Description

Concerning payment with interest.

Disposition

Appeal dismissed with costs.

Notes

Respondent’s name spelled ‘Raitt’ on the printed cases.

The appellants’ printed case is 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), 6:158 (view).


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s case

Case of the appellant (Joseph Weatherby, John Stephens, and Diederick Jacobi v Andrew Raitt)

Counsel

C. Yorke; Al. Wedderburn

 
Note

First page of printed case has an engraving of ?Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane.

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36218 f.86r–87v (Printed date on dorse 20 January 1761; includes manuscript notes.)

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Respondent’s case

Case of the respondent (Joseph Weatherby, John Stephens, and Diederick Jacobi v Andrew Raitt)

Counsel

C. Pratt; Al. Forrester

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36218 f.88r–89v (Printed date on dorse 1760; no manuscript notes.)

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

 

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