Appeals to the Privy Council

Report No. 11_1765_01

Stead v Hart

Stead v Elizer

Rhode Island 

Case Name Short

Stead v Hart

Stead v Elizer

Case Name Long

William Stead v Napthali Hart and Isaac Hart

William Stead v Isaac Elizer

 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation 

v.4 [600] p.716–717 – 19 March 1765 – entry 1

 
PC Register Citation 

George III v.4 (1 October 1764 – 27 August 1766) p.163, 328–329: PC 2/111/163, 328–329

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APC Citation 

v.4 [600] p.717 – 3 December 1766 – entry 2

 
PC Register Citation 

George III v.5 (August 1766 – January 1768) p.104–105, 114: PC 2/112/104–105, 114

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Colonial Courts

Inferior Court – May 1764

Superior Court – Newport – September 1764

Participants

Elizer, Isaac

Hart, Isaac

Hart, Napthali

Isaacks, Jacob

Isaacks, Moses

Stead, William, merchant, of London

Description

Sums due on note

Disposition

Both reversed

Notes

Related to other Privy Council appeals:

    Stead v Isaacs – Report No. 11_1766_01 (APC, v.4 [649] p.759)

    Isaacks v Stead – Report No. 11_1768_00 (APC, v.5 [95] p.175)

Stead v Isaacs and Isaacks v Stead are almost certainly two aspects of the same dispute. The lower court judgments referred to in both cases have the same date, and the Privy Council’s register confirms that the names of the courts are the same. In Stead v Isaacs, the Council apparently agrees that Stead did not properly insure the ship in question, and Isaacs is allowed a new trial on the amount of his damages. In Isaacks v Stead, a judgment for Stead in the amount of £1,200 on a bill of exchange is affirmed. Stead’s actions against Hart and Elizer are against them as endorsers of a note from Isaacks resulting in a judgment for £1,200. This is probably the same piece of commercial paper as is at stake in the subsequent case. Be that as it may be, Isaacks and Stead are clearly the underlying parties in all four actions.


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

TNA Document Committee report (Hart) – 2 Dec. 1766 – PC 1/52/58 view_Document
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Referenced in APC, v.6 [731] p.440

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TNA Document Committee report (Elizer) – 2 Dec. 1766 – PC 1/52/58 view_Document
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Referenced in APC, v.6 [731] p.440

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