Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. ANT_1739_02

Dunbar v Webb

Antigua 

 

Case Name Long

Charles Dunbar v Henry Webb

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

view_APC

APC Citation  

v.3 [474] p.640–644 (6 Sept. 1739 – 10 July 1740)

 
  PC Register Citation

George II v.6 (1 Oct. 1738 – 27 March 1740) p.343–344: PC 2/95/343–344

view

  PC Register Citation

George II v.7 (1 April 1740 – 7 Aug. 1741) p.92–93, 141, 142–147, 156–157: PC 2/96/92–93, 141, 142–147, 156–157

view

 

Colonial Courts

 
 

Admiralty Court – 25 July 1738

 

Participants

Carter (Carty), Timothy, master of the Pretty Polly

 

Coleman, James

 

Dunbar, Charles, surveyor general of his Majesty’s customs in Barbados, Bermuda, and the Leeward Islands, appellant

 

Hancock, Bononi, merchant, of London (father of Henry)

 

Hancock, Henry (son of Bononi)

 

Hussey, Peter, merchant, of Monserrat

 

Jameson, Richard, mate of the Pretty Polly

 

Mathew, Governor [William]

 

Webb, Henry (Harry), esquire, respondent

 
 

Vessels

 
 

Pretty Polly (schooner)

 

Description

Condemnation.

Disposition

The Admiralty Court’s decision to acquit the vessel is upheld; Dunbar appeals from this decision and the later appeal is sustained.

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

Table of Cases (Dunbar v Webb)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Not found

 

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

 

Not found