Case Name: The State against Jacobus Vanhuys
Court: Supreme Court of New Jersey
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1782-04
Citations: 1 N.J. (Manumission) 8
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State against Jacobus Vanhuys.
Judges: 
Reporter: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey Relative to the Manumission of Negroes and Others Holden in Bondage
Volume: 1
Pages: 8–8

Head Matter:
April Term, 1782.
The State against Jacobus Vanhuys.
Kinfey, Elias Boudinot, and the Attorney General fog the Negro.
Sergeant, and Paterfon, for Defendant.
On Habeas Corpus for Negro Will Claiming his Freedom*

Opinion:
THE Court having heard the Arguments of Counfel on the Part of Negro Will, and the Reafons affign-ed for and againft his Freedom, and the Evidence in Support thereof ; It is ordered by the Court that the faid Negro Will be, and he is Hereby difcharged and fet Free from the faid Jacobus Vanhuys, on Motion of Mr Deare.