Appeals to the Privy Council
Report No. 11_1762_01

Read v Nicholls

Rhode Island 

 

Case Name Short

Read v Nicholls

 
Case Name Long

William Read v Benjamin Nicholls

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation 

v.4 [484] p.544 – 25 June 1762 – entry 1

 
PC Register Citation 

George III v.2 (1 January 1762 – 30 April 1763) p.268–269: PC 2/109/268–269

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APC Citation 

v.4 [484] p.544 – 3 August 1762 – entry 2

 
PC Register Citation 

George III v.2 (1 January 1762 – 30 April 1763) p.299–300, 325: PC 2/109/299–300, 325

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Colonial Courts

Inferior Court – May 1758

Superior Court – March 1759 (affirming lower court judgment)

Superior Court – August 1760 (another judgment barring a writ of scire facias)

Participants

Nicholls, Benjamin of Newport (executor of Jonathan Nicholls)

Nicholls, Jonathan, deceased

Read, William, merchant, of Newport

Description

Debt due

Disposition

Appeals dismissed for non-prosecution


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Not found

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

TNA Document Committee report – 15 July 1762 – PC 1/50/47 view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC, v.6 [539] p.339

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