Case ID: rec-co-ch-sc_1/html/0363-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Alexr Stewart Deputy Register in Cane.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Present His Excellency the Governour, The Honourable The Lieutenant Governour, Colonel Fenwick, Alexander Skene, Francis Yonge, Robert Wright, Thomas Waring, John Hammerton  Esquires of his Majestys Council for Executing the Office of Chancellour; Theophilus Gregory Esq. Master.
    Stobo et als v. Bullock
    
      
       John Hammerton, secretary of the province 1732-1762, and receiver-general of quit rents 1732-1742, was sent to Georgia in 1736 to negotiate on the question of licenses for Indian trade. Apparently he left the province before his death in 1766. (Smith, S. C. as a Royal Province, pp. 411, 413, 219; SCHGM, XXIII, 219.)
    
   Mr. Graeme of Council for the Complainant, Opened the Bill and Answer and Prayed for a Decree accordingly. Mr. Lewis for the Defendant Prays that Regard may be had to the Defendant’s Answer and Submits to the Decree of the Court.

Upon Reading the Bill and Answer and Hearing Council on both Sides, It is by this Court Ordered and Decreed, That the Articles of Marriage Set forth in the Bill and Confessed in the Answer be Confirmed and made good by the Defendant, and that he pay Costs of Suit to be Taxed by the Master of this Court.

Alexr Stewart Deputy Register in Cane.

Eodem Die In Cur. Canc.

Present as above.