Case Name: RHEA'S LESSEE v. WILLIAMS et al.
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1795-03
Citations: 1 Del. Cas. 366
Docket Number: 
Parties: RHEA’S LESSEE v. WILLIAMS et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 366–366

Head Matter:
RHEA’S LESSEE v. WILLIAMS et al.
Supreme Court. Sussex.
March, 1795.
Bayard’s Notebook, 95.
Wilson for the defendant
moved for a nonsuit because no conveyance was shown from Jeremiah Jadwin, the patentee, to-Henry Hooper, who devised the land in 1720 and under whom the-plaintiff claimed.

Opinion:
Read, C. J.,
said he doubted the power of the Court to grant a. nonsuit; that the practice in England was derived from a particular statute. However, as the defendants might demur to the title if they thought their objection valid, the Court would not interfere in this stage of the business.