Appeals to the Privy Council

Report No. 01_1699_01

Palmes and Hallam v [Winthrop]

Connecticut 

Case Name Short

Palmes and Hallam v [Winthrop]

Case Name Long

Edward Palmes and John Hallam v [FitzJohn Winthrop, Richard Christopher and Samuel Fosdick]

 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation 

v.2 [733] p.328 – 23 February 1699 – entry 1

 
CSP Citation 

XII no.119

 
PC Register Citation 

William III v.5 (5 May 1697 – 30 March 1700) p.302: PC 2/77/302

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APC Citation 

v.2 [733] p.328 – 9 March 1699 – entry 2

 
CSP Citation 

XII no.160

 
PC Register Citation 

William III v.5 (5 May 1697 – 30 March 1700) p.310–311: PC 2/77/310–311

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Colonial Courts

Unnamed

Participants

Hallam, John, merchant

Palmes, Edward, esquire

[Christopher, Richard]

[Fosdick, Samuel]

[Winthrop, FitzJohn]

Description

Not stated in Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

Disposition

Not stated in Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

Notes

Related to other Privy Council appeals:

    Hallam v Winthrop – Report No. 01_1699_02 (APC, v.2 [734] p.328)

    Palmes v Winthrop – Report No. 01_1703_00 (APC, v.2 [913] p.453)

The appeals of Palmes and Hallam are related, arising predominately from a dispute about the will of John Liveen, stepfather of John and Nicholas Hallam. This case amounts to requests by Palmes and Hallam to require Connecticut to allow an appeal in its courts in a matter regarding the seizure of the ship Liveen, with further right to appeal to the King in Council if desired.

Hallam v Winthrop concerns the Hallam brothers’ attempt to obtain the estate of John Liveen. Palmes v Winthrop continues Palmes’s controversy regarding the Liveen and adds an appeal from a dispute related to his rights to a part of the estate of the late John Winthrop through Palmes’s late wife Lucy, daughter of John Winthrop.

These appeals are noted particularly for the comment of the crown law officers that appeals lay to the King in Council as a right inherent in the crown.

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

Table of Cases (Palmes and Hallam v Winthrop et al)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Not found

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

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Notes about
Document
All documents for this action are entered under Report No. 01_1703_00 (Palmes v Winthrop).