Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. JAM_1770_07

Stone v Spragge

Spragge v Stone

Jamaica 

 

Case Name Long

Jane Stone v Robert Wadham Spragge and James Trower

 
Case Name Long

Robert Wadham Spragge and James Trower v Jane Stone

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.5 [175] p.290–291 (21 Dec. 1770 – 31 March 1773)

 
  PC Register Citation

George III v.7 (May 1769 – Dec. 1770) p.701: PC 2/114/701

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  PC Register Citation

George III v.8 (Jan. 1771 – Dec. 1771) p.45, 67–68, 327–330, 342–343: PC 2/115/45, 67–68, 327–330, 342–343

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  PC Register Citation

George III v.10 (Jan. 1773 – April 1774) p.110–116, 126: PC 2/117/110–116, 126

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Chancellor – 20 Aug. 1770

 

Participants

Cunniffe, Henry

 

Lumsden, George, deceased

 

McGhie, James

 

McGhie, Jonathan

 

McGhie, Robert

 

Simpson, John

 

Spragge, George

 

Spragge (formerly Veale), Jane (widow of Robert, mother of Robert Wadham)

 

Spragge, Robert, deceased (husband of Jane, father of Robert Wadham Spragge)

 

Spragge, Robert Wadham, infant, respondent/appellant (son of Robert)

 

Stone, Jane, appellant/respondent

 

Trower, James, respondent/appellant

 

Veale, Jane – see Spragge, Jane

 

Description

Concerning an estate and will.

Disposition

Stone’s appeal is dismissed. The decree is reversed with respect to the will’s disposition of real estate, which is revoked by subsequent marriage and birth of a son.

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

Table of Cases (Stone v Spragge)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Not found

 

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

 
TNA Document Committee report (Spragge v Stone) – 27 March 1773 (PC 1/55/72) view_Document
Notes about
Document
Referenced in APC v.6 [907] p.539. AALT lists this under March 31 (when it was read and approved).

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