Colonial Appeals Report Print

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation

v.5 [95] p.175 – 16 December 1768 – entry 1

PC Register Citation

George III v.6 (January 1768 – April 1769) p.387: PC 2/113/387

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APC Citation

v.5 [95] p.175 – 27 April 1770 – entry 2

PC Register Citation

George III v.7 (May 1769 – December 1770) p.297–298, 356: PC 2/114/297–298, 356

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Colonial Courts

Unnamed – March 1765 and 28 May 1764

Participants

Isaacks, Jacob, merchant, of Newport

Stead, William

Description

Not stated in APC, but see Notes, below

Disposition

Affirmed

Notes

Related to other Privy Council appeals:

Stead v Hart and Stead v Elizer – Report No. 11_1765_01 (APC, v.4 [600] p.716–717)

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

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.