Appeals to the Privy Council
Report No. ANT_1739_03

Park v Dunbar

Park v Dunbar

Antigua 

 

Case Name Long

Lucy Chester Park v Charles Dunbar, as lessor of the nominal plaintiff John Doe

Case Name Long

Lucy Chester Park v Charles Dunbar

 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.3 [482] p.656 (22 Nov. 1739 – 6 Dec. 1740)

 
PC Register Citation  

George II v.6 (1 Oct. 1738 – 27 March 1740) p.418–419: PC 2/95/418–419

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PC Register Citation  

George II v.7 (1 April 1740 – 7 Aug. 1741) p.9, 117, 131, 132–134, 156, 226, 229, 256, 268–290, 304: PC 2/96/9, 117, 131, 132–134, 156, 226, 229, 256, 268–290, 304

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Colonial Courts

Court of King's Bench and Common Pleas – 30 May 1738

Governor and Council as a Court of Errors – 13 Nov. 1738

Chancery – 21 Sept. 1739

Participants

Chester, Lucy – see Park, Lucy Chester

Doe, John (lessee of Charles Dunbar)

Dunbar, Charles, respondent (lessor of John Doe)

Gamble, George

Mackinnon, William

Park (Parke), Daniel, former governor of Antigua, deceased

Park (Parke), Lucy Chester, widow, appellant

Park, Thomas Dunbar, deceased

Sydseife, Walter

Warner, Ashton

Description

Ejectment (first appeal); debt due (second appeal).

Disposition

First appeal dismissed; order varied the decree of the Antigua Chancery in the second appeal.

Notes

Related to another Privy Council appeal:

Dunbar v Custis – Report No. 13_1755_02 (APC, v.4 [270] p.288–290).

The appellant’s and respondent’s printed cases are summarized in Caribbeana: miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies, ed. Vere Langford Oliver (London: Mitchell, Hughes, and Clarke, 1909–1919), 6:118-119 (view).


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s
case

Case of the appellant (Lucy Chester Parke v Charles Dunbar and John Doe)

Counsel

Fran. Chute; W. Murray

 
Library

The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University: bD740.D898L (Printed/manuscript date on dorse 1 July 1740 with manuscript note: “Ord’d. That the Judgm’t given by the Court of Errors on the 13th of Nov 1738 be Affirmed and the Appeal of Lucy Chester Parke Dismist.” No other manuscript notes or underlining)

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Respondent’s
case

Case of the respondent (John Doe ex dem. Charles Dunbar v Lucy Chester Parke; Lucy Chester Parke v Charles Dunbar)

Counsel

D. Ryder; J. Strange

 
Library

The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University: bD740.D898j (Printed date on dorse 26 June 1740. No manuscript notes or underlining)

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

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Other Documents

Other DocumentsFor additional background on this appeal and George Washington’s relationship to the matter, see “I. Queries to John Mercer, 20 April 1759,” in National Archives, Founders Online, last visited 3/1/2017. (Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series. 6: 4 September 1758–26 December 1760, ed. W. W. Abbot [Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988] p.210–213.) 
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