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Provincial Court Proceedings, 1668. 301
This Cause being resplted last Court the deft alleadging he could Liber FF
produce sufficient discharges, which were now counted insufficient
discharges for the Satisfaction of the said debt, judgmt for the pt
with costs.
The Court adjourned till two of the Clocke in the afternoone.
The Court a!! meet as in the morning.
Cuthbert Witham agt Jenifer p quer
Jonathan SibreyCalvert p deft
Ordered that the difference in Controüsie be resplted untill friday
morning next being the fifth instant.
Ordered that On friday next in the afternoone Mr Thomas Spriggs
Pattent be viewed by the Court and then the same be determined
whether it be in his Löpps Mannour of Ann Arrundell.
Eliz: Story admrx Walter Story Morecroft p quer
agt Samuel Tilghman Jenifer p deft
The plaintiff as admrx of Walter Story Sues the deft for divers
parcells of Goods and merchandize being by One John Long of Lon-
don Merchant Shipped On board the Shipp Constant Freindshipp
the deft being then Comander, which said Goods were Consigned to
be delivered to John Emerson and the said Waiter Story or their
assignes the said Emerson and Story dying at sea the plaintiff de-
mands as assignee of the said Walter
And the said Samuel by Daniel Jenifer his Attorny comes and
defends the force and injury when &c and Saith that he is no wise
Guilty of the premisses above imposed upon him for that the said
Elizabeth herein is no assignee in Law to the said Walter and that
the said Goods being joyntly consigned to the said Walter and the
aforementioned John Emerson who deceased since the death of the
said Walter became thereby invested with the property of the said
Goods as Survivor to the said Walter therefore the said Samuel Saith
he is not bound or Obliged to deliver the said Goods to the said
Elizabeth and of this he putts himselfe upon the judgment of the
Court and the said Elizabeth likewise.
The judgment of the Court is that the plaintiff hath no Right
or title to the abovesaid Goods in question, but that the same be dis-
posed off as the said Samuel Tilghman Shall thinke best for the
most advantage of the said John Long, and the said Courts advice to
the said Samuel herein was that since he hath so carefully Secured
the said Goods in the hands of Mr Thomas Notley a responsible
person who did acknowledge in Court to haue the said Goods in his
custody and that as it was desired by the said Long in his Letters
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