Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. ANT_1734_02

Burke v Weir

Antigua 

 

Case Name Long

John Burke (George and Elizabeth Burke Crump, and John Burke, the son, added as later parties) and James Duncan v Robert Weir, Walter Weir, Francis Weir, William Paynter, Edward Byam, George Thomas, George Byam, and Thomas Freeman (later adding William Gunthorpe, as nephew and heir of William Paynter, deceased)

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.3 [306] p.417–418 (11 July 1734 – 17 Dec. 1750)

 
  PC Register Citation

George II v.3 (21 July 1732 – 18 July 1734) p.526–527: PC 2/92/526–527

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  PC Register Citation

George II v.7 (1 April 1740 – 7 Aug. 1741) p.290–291: PC 2/96/290–291

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  PC Register Citation

George II v.13 (1 May 1750 – 30 March 1752): p.127–128: PC 2/102/127–128

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Chancery – 25 April and 5 May 1733

 

Participants

Burke, Elizabeth – see Crump, Elizabeth

 

Burke, John (1), merchant, appellant, later deceased (husband of Elizabeth [now Elizabeth Crump], father of John [2])

 

Burke, John (2), appellant (son of John [1])

 

Byam, Edward (1), later deceased (executor of John Paynter)

 

Byam, Edward (2), infant, respondent

 

Byam, George, respondent (executor of William)

 

Byam, William, deceased

 

Carlisle, Francis, later deceased (executor of John Paynter)

 

Chester, Anne, later deceased (executrix of John Paynter)

 

Crump (formerly Burke), Elizabeth, appellant (wife of George, widow and administratrix of John Burke [1])

 

Crump, George, appellant (husband of Elizabeth)

 

Dunbar, Charles

 

Duncan, James, mariner, of Kirkcaldy (Scotland), appellant

 

Freeman, Thomas, respondent (executor of William Byam)

 

Gunthorpe, William, esquire, respondent (nephew and heir of William Paynter, personal representative of John Paynter and William Paynter)

 

Paynter, John, the Elder, deceased

 

Paynter, William, respondent, later deceased (son and heir of John, executor of William Byam)

 

Stevens, Thomas

 

Thomas, George, respondent (executor of William Byam)

 

Thomlinson (Tomlinson), John, later deceased (executor of John Paynter)

 

Weir, Francis, respondent (executor of William Byam)

 

Weir, Robert, respondent, later deceased (executor of William Byam)

 

Weir, Walter, respondent (heir at law and personal representative of Robert, executor of William Byam)

 

Description

Not stated in the Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series.

Disposition

Not stated in the Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series.

Notes

Related to another Privy Council appeal:

Chester v Paynter, Chester v Gunthorp, Byam v Gunthorp – Report No. ANT_1725_03 (APC, v.3 [90] p.121–123).


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

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

 

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