Related to other Privy Council appeals:

    Brenton v Sylvester – Report No. 11_1756_00 (APC, v.4 [297] p.323)

    Freebody v Brenton – Report No. 11_1758_00 (APC, v.4 [366] p.395–396)

The only record in the APC in Brenton v Sylvester notes an appearance of counsel for Sylvester, respondent in an appeal brought by Brenton, Wickham, and Gardiner. Brenton, Wickham, and Gardiner, as we learn in Freebody v Brenton, were commissioners for the distribution of the estate of the insolvent Joseph Whipple. The two Freebody v Brenton cases are closely related. They involve mortgages, in which the elder Freebody seems to have been the mortgagee, and a dispute about whether the conditions of the mortgages had been fulfilled. The first of the two cases is an appeal by the elder Freebody. The second of the two cases is a revival of the first appeal brought by the elder Freebody’s sons as executors of his estate. The relationship of these cases to Brenton v Sylvester may simply be that the commissioners for the distribution of the estate of the insolvent Joseph Whipple were involved in both, or it may be closer. The records that we have examined do not allow us to tell which it is.

A note at the end of the respondent’s printed case states: “There is another appeal and cross appeal depending between the same parties, upon another mortgage . . . and as the proceedings . . . and the questions the same . . . it was thought unnecessary to repeat the same matter in two different printed cases, as the determination of one cause will of course decide the other.”