Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. STV_1769_00

Smith v Ottley

St. Vincent 

 

Case Name Long

Harry Smith v Richard Ottley

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.5 [128] p.214–215 (25 Oct. 1769)

 
  PC Register Citation

George III v.7 (May 1769 – Dec. 1770) p.77, 96, 118: PC 2/114/77, 96, 118

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Court of Common Pleas – 25 June 1768

 
 

Court of Errors – 4 July 1768

 

Participants

Ottley, Richard, respondent

 

Smith, Harry, collector of customs, appellant

 

Description

Action of trover.

Disposition

Not stated in the Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series, but Smith (p.168) says that the case was never prosecuted.

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

Table of Cases (Smith v Ottley)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s case

Case of the appellant (2 copies) (Harry Smith v Richard Ottley)

Counsel

Wm. De Grey; E. Thurlow; J Dunning

 
Library

The National Archives at Kew: (Treasury Solicitor and HM Procurator General, Papers) TS 11/1028/4377 and 4378 (We include images of only one of the printed cases, neither of which has any manuscript notes or underlining. Extensive manuscript documents, the images of which are not included here, can be found at the same call number: proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas in an action of trover; the arguments of Mr Lucas, his Majesty’s Attorney General for the Southern Charibboo Islands; and the arguments of Mr Byam, the plaintiff’s counsel, also of the counsel for the defendant.)

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

 

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