From Alexander Hamilton to Brockholst Livingston, 28 April [1797]
To Brockholst Livingston
[Albany] April 28 [1797]. “The situation of General Schuyler1 & other family circumstances do not permit me to attend Court this day. Will you do me the favour to argue the motion for setting aside the Non suit & granting a new trial on the inclosed case? …”2
ALS, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
2. The case in question was Thomas Gilbert and Francis Farquharson v Jeremiah Hallett (or Hallet). See , II, 25, note 94.
The following entry appears in the minutes of the New York Supreme Court for April 28, 1797:
“Gilbert & Ferguson vs. Hallett |
Argument. On Motion to set aside the nonsuit in this cause, Mr Hamilton for the Plaintiff and Mr Riggs for Defendant— Curia Adversari vult.” |
(MS Minutes of the New York Supreme Court, 1797–1802 [Court of Appeals, Albany]).