The Report of an Action of Assault, Battery and Wounding, tried in the Supreme Court of Judicature for the Province of New-York, in the Term of October 1764.
Between Thomas Forsey, Plaintiff, and Waddel Cunningham, Defendant. iv, 68pp. 4to, handsomely rebound in modern 1/2 mottled calf, leather label; (light foxing, ex- lib, light dampstain to some margins). N.Y.: John Holt, 1764. Waddel Cunningham was found guilty and fined 1500 pounds. His appeal to his Majesty's Council, Judges of the Court of Appeals was not taken up. In the preface, the anonymous editor, protests the appeal attempt by expressing that Americans should be tried by their peers and not..... More