Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. JAM_1760_01

Cross v Atkins

Jamaica 

 

Case Name Long

Richard Cross v Michael Atkins, John Curtis, Mark Davis, and the Attorney General

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.4 [420] p.447–448 (2 May 1760 – 21 Dec. 1763)

 
  PC Register Citation

George II v.18 (2 May 1759 – 10 July 1760) p.367, 398, 402, 409, 412–413: PC 2/107/367, 398, 402, 409, 412–413

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  PC Register Citation

George III v.1 (25 Oct. 1760 – 31 Dec. 1761) p.333, 418: PC 2/108/333, 418

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  PC Register Citation

George III v.3 (1 May 1763 – 30 Sept. 1764) p.184, 186–190, 194–195: PC 2/110/184, 186–190, 194–195

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Chancery – 23 Jan. 1748

 

Participants

Atkins, Michael, merchant, of Bristol, respondent (executor of Samuel Dicker)

 

Cross, Richard, appellant (brother of William and Thomas)

 

Cross, Thomas (brother of William and Richard)

 

Cross, William, of Kingston, deceased (brother of Richard and Thomas, cousin of John, Eleanor, and Elizabeth Jones)

 

Curtis, John, merchant, of Bristol, respondent (executor of Samuel Dicker)

 

Davis, Mark, merchant, of Bristol, respondent (executor of Samuel Dicker)

 

Dicker, Samuel, later deceased (acting executor of William Cross)

 

Fuller, Rose (executor of William Cross)

 

Jones, Edmund, of Melverly, county of Montgomery (father of John, Eleanor, and Elizabeth)

 

Jones, Eleanor, deceased (daughter of Edmund, cousin of William Cross)

 

Jones, Elizabeth (daughter of Edmund, cousin of William Cross)

 

Jones, John (son of Edmund, cousin of William Cross)

 

Marriott, Sidney, master in Chancery, account to be taken before

 

Mills, Richard (executor of William Cross)

 

Penny, Robert, attorney general, respondent

 

White, Anthony (executor of William Cross)

 

Description

Lapsed legacy.

Disposition

Decree reversed and bill dismissed.

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

Table of Cases (Cross v Atkins; Cross v Davis)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s case

Case of the appellant (Richard Cross v Michael Atkins, John Curtis, Mark Davis, and the Attorney General [of Jamaica])

Counsel

Flr. Norton; W. de Grey

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36218 f.209r–212v (Printed date on dorse 1763; dated by hand on dorse 12 Mar. 1763; manuscript notes only on dorse.)

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Respondent’s case

Case of the respondent (Richard Cross v the Attorney General of Jamaica, Michael Atkins, John Curtis, and Mark Davis)

Counsel

C. Yorke; G. Nares

 
Library

British Library: (Hardwicke Papers) Additional Manuscripts 36218 f.213r–216v (Printed/manuscript date on dorse 19 Dec 1763; includes manuscript notes; supplementary manuscript “Observations” written in a clerical hand, followed by 6 pages of informal notes written in Yorke’s hand.)

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

 
TNA Document Committee report (Cross v Attorney General and Dicker's executors) – 19 Dec. 1763 (PC 1/50/49) view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC v.6 [579] p.359–360.

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